Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

[NexusHumanis]

...and gives the error message: A Fatal Error Occurred
The application Dolphin (dolphin) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT).

It works fine in Konqueror.

[dewclaw82]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

I can't give you any help with Dolphin, per se. However, I've had good luck with my system which is to delete Dolphin entirely and use Krusader instead. I don't know that I've tried .avi files on Krusader, but I've never had a problem with it opening anything else i wanted.

[Rog131]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

Could you tell a bit more. There are many kind of Dolphins . From the KDE 3.5.8/3.5.9 D3lphin to the KDE 4.1 RC1 Dolphin.

And there are many kind of avi's. Avi is a container format > Avi wiki.

[walfred]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

Excuse me, NexusHumanis, when you say "opening avi.files", what do you precisely expect?
1- Dolphin opening the file by itself
2- Another player, such as MPlayer, to be open and then your avi file runs

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

Well, I suspect the problem is with dolphin for 4.1rc1(provided all my upgrades have gone as they should). It seems to work fine in 3.5.9.
I was trying to open the files(DivX) in Kaffeine, but i just discovered that the crash happens even as i point the marker to the icon, not just when i try to open the files.

[Rog131]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

There is a known bug with the KDE 4.1 Dolphin > Bug 164296: Dolphin crash right clicking on a corrupted MPEG file +++ many duplicates

That bug will crash dolphin if you:

- When I right click on a corrupted MPEG file, dolphin crash.
- Dolphin crashes when mouse hovers AVI file
- Dolphin crashes when accessing NFS shares
- Dolphin crash on folder join
- Dolphin crashes while browsing directory full of movies
- Crash in dolphin while switching aplications with Alt+Tab with the new Cover Switch
- Dolphin crash when it is going to preview video files.
- dolphin crash on right click in media file avi
- Crash when creating previews for .avi files
- crash on multimedia file preview
- Dolphin crashes/freezes when mouse hovers over network share
- highlighting media crashes dolphin
- Dolphin crashes when selecting an incomplete Bittorent AVI download
- crashes while moving (large) files
- And many more...

at Jos: RC1 will be tagged tomorrow. I applied the patch as this is a showstopper for Dolphin (got already 20 bug reports because of this during the last 2 weeks)

It is marked:

Resolution: FIXED

Maybe it is fixed in the Final version as here divx/xvid are still crashing KDE 4.1 RC1 (Intrepid Ibex alpha)

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Dolphin crashes when opening avi.files

So, the answer will be "use konqueror until a bugfix is implemented"? Fair enough.