Xpra: Ticket #449: Crash when connecting with x264 encoding

Xpra crashes in x264_cqm_init, when attaching with x264 encoding. Happened with xpra 0.10.6 and also with 0.10.8. Other encodings like png are ok.

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:32:01 GMT - rikky: attachment set

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Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:37:13 GMT - rikky:

Some more details: I'm on Ubuntu 13.10 and I connected with a Windows client. The client had the same version as the server.

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:51:21 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

owner changed from Antoine Martin to Antoine Martin
status changed from new to assigned

Thanks, I hit that same bug yesterday.

Unless someone from Ubuntu land can figure out what they do different (it works on every other platform, of which there are dozens, including osx and win32), I think I'll just disable x264 for Ubuntu. I am Tired of fixing Ubuntu only breakage.

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:38:36 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Is this still a problem? I've just updated my test VM and it no longer crashes with 0.10.8.

I also came across these bug reports which imply that this problem is not limited to xpra:

vlc ticket 9712: "ubuntu saucy package of vlc uses sse3 instructions to transcode on cpu that does not support them"

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:53:32 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, description changed; resolution set

status changed from assigned to closed
resolution set to invalid
description modified (diff)

Clearly an Ubuntu bug: Ubuntu x264 bug 1241772, so closing as invalid.

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:55:50 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/449