With FFplay, it plays for about a second or two, and then freezes. It cannot be killed with C-c. FFmpeg was able to transcode it to an ogg vorbis file, which Audacity was able to open without any trouble. Here is the output of playing the file with "ffplay -stats"
FFplay version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2, Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --extra-cflags=-I/build/buildd/ffmpeg-0.5+svn20090706/debian/include --enable-shared --disable-static libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0 libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0 libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0 libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0 libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 built on Oct 13 2009 22:15:16, gcc: 4.4.1 Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Music/Ballroom/03 Stand By Me.m4a': Duration: 00:04:09.73, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 129 kb/s Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 title: Stand By Me author: Maurice White album: Maurice White genre: R&B/Soul track: 0 year: 2001 comment: USSM18500473 muxer: iTunes v7.1.1.5, QuickTime 7.1.5 0.21 A-V: 0.000 aq= 80KB vq= 0KB sq= 0B ** Attachment added: "Song causing problems" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33824613/03%20Stand%20By%20Me.m4a -- audacity crashed with SIGSEGV when setting ffmpeg library https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs