564089 - new crash [@ pthread_mutex_lock ] related to Veetle or Move-Media-Player

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This week we had a new member of the Camino 2.0.2 topcrashers, a crash in [@ pthread_mutex_lock ] (where the next frame is a plug-in, either Veetle or Move-Media-Player.  (crash-stats said it jumped 27 places in the past week, to #7.)

Firefox is also showing tons of these crashes. It's #179 this week on all Firefox 3.6.3 crashes, new to the Fx topcrash report, too; in a Mac-only report (http://tinyurl.com/26bqycm), it's the #3 Mac topcrash.  Not all of the Firefox crashes are Veetle, but the vast majority of the ones I looked at were.

These crashes are usually on http://veetle.com, http://www.atdhe.net/, and http://myp2p.eu/ for the Veetle version, and http://www.fancast.com or	 http://www.cwtv.com for the Move-Media-Player version.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Chromium's bug for this is http://crbug.com/42638 and I've reported it to the Veetle developers via email (and pointed out that it happens in Gecko browsers as well as Chromium).

The Move Networks player is dead (all mention of the plugin are gone from their site), so I wouldn't expect a fix for that one.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

There seems to be about 213 reports of a crash in a different stack -  
[@ vlc_libfaad.dylib@0x5878 ]. Almost all of the 9 comments in those crashes implicate Veetle and reference the http://atdhe.net/ site.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The Move Networks player is dead (all mention of the plugin are gone from their
> site), so I wouldn't expect a fix for that one.

Comcast's Xfinity TV service is using Move-Media-Player, and we're starting to see a spike in this crash signature triggered by that plug-in on the Xfinity TV site (fancast.com).

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Unfortunately I can't find a way to download the plugin without being a paying customer, but given that their requirements page says you have to run Safari in 32-bit mode I'm guessing they are doing their own distribution of the same plugin that existed before.

This is interesting though:
http://getsatisfaction.com/cim/topics/do_i_need_to_have_silverlight_installed_to_watch_xfinity_videos
Maybe they are realizing that using a plugin that doesn't seem to have much support isn't the best idea...

Comment 5

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

I'm marking this bug as WORKSFORME as bug crashlog signature didn't appear from a long time (over half year).