[Bug 44230] SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes during configuration

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44230

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |ABANDONED
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #7 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

I don't think it's worth repeating the request over and over again.
Slingbox/SlingPlayer is dead.

https://www.slingbox.com/discontinued

--- quote ---
Q: How long will my Slingbox continue to work?

A: Slingbox servers will be permanently taken offline November 9, 2022, at
which point ALL Slingbox devices and services will become inoperable.

Until then, most Slingbox models will continue to work normally, but the number
of supported devices for viewing will steadily decrease as versions of the
SlingPlayer apps become outdated and/or lose compatibility. 
--- quote ---

As Ken indicated in his initial comment, the issue can't be reproduced without
an actual Slingbox.

It might be possible to trick the player into seeing a Slingbox just to get the
config menu up. Since the vendor abandoned the product, reverse engineering the
protocol of a dead product/technology would be wasted time.

The client sends out broadcast to UDP port 5004 to detect Slingboxes on the
local network. Poor man's listening server just for demo, doesn't do anything:

--- snip ---
$ socat -v -dd -x UDP-LISTEN:5004,bind=0.0.0.0,fork,reuseaddr,crlf SYSTEM:""

2022/02/06 12:43:23 socat[848745] N listening on UDP AF=2 0.0.0.0:5004
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[848745] N accepting UDP connection from AF=2
192.168.178.52:37789
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[848745] N forked off child process 849163
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[848745] N listening on UDP AF=2 0.0.0.0:5004
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] N forking off child, using socket for reading
and writing
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] N forked off child process 849164
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] N forked off child process 849164
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] N starting data transfer loop with FDs [5,5]
and [6,6]
> 2022/02/06 12:43:28.426255  length=32 from=0 to=31
 01 01 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
--
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] N childdied(): handling signal 17
2022/02/06 12:43:28 socat[849163] W read(6, 0x561d213cf000, 8192): Connection
reset by peer
--- snip ---

--- snip ---
$ pwd
/home/focht/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Sling Media/SlingPlayer

$ wine ./SlingPlayer.exe
...
--- snip ---

Resolving 'abandoned' here.

Regards

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