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VideoLAN Client CLI debug info — no pizza for you?
August 4th, 2008 by Anders Kringstad

While having a bad piece of "high-on-life", "too-much-coffee" AND "one-extremely-long-car-ride-with-ze-wife" insomnia I decided to watch some Video clips and listen to some music. This quickly turned into a VideoLAN Client playlist and at the end, while closing shop and thinking hard about getting a few hours sleep before work I found this in my console:

VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus
[00000283] main playlist: nothing to play

** (.:662): CRITICAL **: gtk_pizza_set_size: assertion `pizza != NULL’ failed
[00000283] main playlist: stopping playback

This is ofcourse a very funny naming of an variable, and I can’t help to wonder; Who is it intended to obscure things for? The users seeing the debug info? The possible commercial companies trying to benefit from reverse engineering VLC into their product without having to distribute it as free software? Is it perhaps not intended for anyone? Anyways, funny stuff. If anyone happen to know the reason for the funny debug-info and/or the naming of the variable, please do comment! 🙂


2 Responses  
  • Klette writes:
    August 4th, 20088:28 amat

    GtkPizza is the base GTK-widget in wxWidgets. Why they named it pizza? Who knows?

  • andy writes:
    August 5th, 20081:30 pmat

    Quick guess, it’s related to GTK Pizza, the (now presumed dead) POS system for pizza parlors… implemented in, yep you guessed it, GTK 😀
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