AtomicParsley (Windows) crashes when writing some descriptions

[Kevin Reilly]

As per the subject, at least I think that's what's going on.

The last two weeks' episodes of Click, and this week's Spooks (pid
b0153b3h), were causing AtomicParsley to hang on this Windows 7 64bit
installation, resulting in raw code 65280 being written to the log when
the crashed AtomicParsley was closed. The resulting MP4 file was usable,
but had no tags applied.

I have managed to work around the problem (at least for Spooks; I've not
had a chance to try it with anything else) by commenting out the push
commands in the following block of the main perl script:

# add descriptions to audio podcasts and video
 if ( $tags->{is_video} || $tags->{is_podcast}) {
   # push @cmd, ('--description', $tags->{description} );
    if ( $opt->{tag_longdescription} ) {
     # push @cmd, ( '--longDescription', $tags->{longDescription} );
    } elsif ( $opt->{tag_longdesc} ) {
     # push @cmd, ( '--longdesc', $tags->{longDescription} );
    }
  }

Obviously the next step is to comment out each push command in turn to
determine which one, or ones, are actually causing the problem. My gut
instinct is that it's one of the long descriptions, rather than the
regular description, that's causing grief although that is just a guess.
The odd thing is that the long description is also added to the file in
the 'lyrics' field and causes no issues, suggesting it's NOT just a
problem whereby a particular string of characters is causing difficulties
when read by AtomicParsley. Perhaps it's just a length problem? Buffer
overflow?

I'm going to be away from the PC for the next ten hours or so, and unable
to do any more testing, but hopefully this may assist anyone else who's
seeing similar behaviour, and perhaps lead to an explanation and/or a
better work-around?

get_iplayer was installed using the latest (4.4) Windows installer.

-- 
Kev
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