[SDL] SDL_mixer1.2.7 - MP3 playback is unstable on WinXP...

[Peter Mulholland]

SlntHero at aol.com wrote:
>  
> SDL_mixer1.2.7 - MP3 playback is unstable on WinXP...
>  
> I read the instructions and checked my source code and everything seems to  be
> written ok, but using certain values for "int Mix_OpenAudio(int  frequency,
> Uint16 format, int channels, int chunksize)" produces program  lock-ups
> (crashes).
>  
> 
> Example:
>  
> Using:
>  
> Mix_OpenAudio(MIX_DEFAULT_FREQUENCY, MIX_DEFAULT_FORMAT ,  
> MIX_DEFAULT_CHANNELS,
> 1024)
>  
> sometimes crashes on initialization (Mix_OpenAudio) and sometimes crashes  on
> switching current MP3 music playing (Mix_PlayMusic) and sometimes crashes  on
> de-initialization (Mix_CloseAudio).
>  
> 
> Changing to:
>  
> Mix_OpenAudio(44100, MIX_DEFAULT_FORMAT , MIX_DEFAULT_CHANNELS, 512)
>  
> seems to fix the crash problems.
>  
> 
> Hope someone can fix these issues and release fixes in SDL_mixer  1.2.8

Find out exactly where the crashes occur. This is fairly easy with 
Visual Studio. My guess is that the crashes are inside smpeg.

Pete.