VLC crashed when trying to encode to Theora and FLAC

Will uploading the file through Firefox make a difference? It shouln`t take nearly four hours to upload an 8 MB file?

This is upstream bug: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/486

Trying to transcode the Gates testimony from wmv. VLC plays the files just fine so it seems to be the encoding it's having trouble with.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

I notice in the VLC 'wizzard' it says it's not really suited to transcoding ,more just for capturing network streams. I've been using different tools to encode ogg video so not really bothered any more by vlc's ability or lack thereof..

Would still be nice to get this fixed so I'll fire up VLC on my other box (this one's runing gNewSense now!) and see if there's still a problem with an up to date hardy.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

2009/2/26 Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden>:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> VLC crashed when trying to encode to Theora and FLAC
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73449
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Not going to well in Jaunty either; this is an attempt to convert an
FLV (which it has no trouble playing) to ogg theora/vorbis with
otherwise default settings. It seems to get stuck in an endless loop.

zcat@mandela:~$ vlc
VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a
Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure
'--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintaner-mode'
'--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool'
'--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=1ubuntu3'
'--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk'
'--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl'
'--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse'
'--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi'
'--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde'
'--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg'
'--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp'
'--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins'
'--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex'
'--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2'
'--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora'
'--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls'
'--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb'
'--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd'
'--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-faad'
'--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings'
'--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca'
'--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-x264' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-dv'
'--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib'
'--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g
-O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000397] main interface error: no interface module matched "xosd,none"
[00000397] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00000001] main libvlc error: interface "xosd,none" initialization failed
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00000420] mux_ogg mux: Open
[00000514] vorbis encoder error: CBR mode initialisation failed
[00000411] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find audio
encoder (module:any fourcc:vorb)
[00000411] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot create audio chain
[00000512] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer outpu...

setting back to new...
note that, the proposed upstream ticket is closed since 2006

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * tighten build-dependencies on libschroedinger-dev, fixes FTBFS.
  * Following bugs have an associated and now closed upstream ticket in
    Launchpad: LP: #281295, #73449, #282567, #117640, #172938, #260918,
    #273685, #275043, #277834, #282394, #290753, #294136, #298925, #304265,
    #309728, #311742, #314038

vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release Candidate
    + Closes: #527010, #491441, #508618, #522824
  * Delete patches which were picked from upstream
  * Refresh patches
  * Remove vlc-plugin-esd and vlc-plugin-arts as they have been removed
    by upstream
  * SONAME change for libvlccore
  * Add new symbols for libvlc2
  * Fix static libs compile
  * Use vlc-wrapper manpage from upstream
  * vlc.install: add drawable and screen was renamed x11_screen
  * vlc-nox.install: Add and remove modules added/removed upstream
  * Point out in NEWS the modules renamed or splited
  * Add links to upstream NEWS and co in vlc-nox
  * Version the depedency of libvlcore2 on vlc-data
  * Remove unnecessary "Section:" in debian/control

vlc (0.9.9a-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct typo in 0.9.9a-2 changelog entry
  * Disable more optimization with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
  * Cache the configure test results as we're running configure several
    times
  * Fix building as root
  * Fix the clean target
  * Remove unexistant config options
  * Better check commad line
  * Use all the procs on i386 and amd64
  * Build a version of libvlccore without altivec (Closes: #523035)
  * Fix typo (thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso)(Closes: #528044)
  * Reword the command line to get full logs in bug/presubj (Closes: #527012)
  * Remove duplicate "extended Settings" entry in context menu
   (Closes: #526603) - thanks to Matt Kraai

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:28:15 +0200