If RV isnt authenticated, when we try to open a quicktime from CLI, RV will just hard Crash.
Here are 2 seperate steps to reproduce the issue.
A. Open h264 media through CLI
- Clear your authentication cache (~.rv, ~./config/TweakSoftware, ~/.local/share/TweakSoftware)
- Open your h264 media through CLI (
/opt/RV/bin/rv /my/file.mov) - RV will sloly open and then crash
B. Set RV to be your default media player in Maya
- Open Maya Preference, set Quicktime Viewing Application:
/opt/RV/bin/rvpush-tag playblast merge %f - Do a simple quicktime playblast (encoding jpeg)
- RV will slowly open and then crash
The expected behaviour
Let the user authenticate. From my understanding, ffmpeg libraries are loaded after the authentication process, thus crashing if not logged in.
This is reaaally annoying for our Animators since RV is our default media player.
In both cases, here are my error logs when it’s occuring.
INFO: loading plugin /opt/RV-Linux-Rocky9-Release-2025.0.0/RV/plugins/Output/AJADevices.so
INFO: loading plugin /opt/RV-Linux-Rocky9-Release-2025.0.0/RV/plugins/Output/BlackMagicDevices.so
INFO: loading plugin /opt/RV-Linux-Rocky9-Release-2025.0.0/RV/plugins/Output/NDI.so
ERROR: cannot find proper authorization.
WARNING: /opt/RV-Linux-Rocky9-Release-2025.0.0/RV/plugins/MovieFormats/mio_ffmpeg_commercial.so failed to load
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: NDIModule found NDIVideoDevice
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
INFO: trying brute force to find an image reader for 30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
/usr/tmp/rez_context_hjhwk_5r/rez-shell.sh: line 8: 2087193 Segmentation fault (core dumped) rv /X/PROJETS/dev_5747/prod/sht/30s/30s_010/30s_010_0010/anm_out/playblast/30s_010_0010_anim_v114.mov
We were not having this issue on RV 2023.0.1 (what we used before using 2025.0.0)