From 25e075244025a930b9f6dda16138eca9d9877643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matthias P. Braendli" <matthias.braendli@mpb.li>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:17:36 +0100
Subject: Catch and handle VLC initialisation failure

---
 src/VLCInput.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/VLCInput.cpp b/src/VLCInput.cpp
index 36c77fa..5912509 100644
--- a/src/VLCInput.cpp
+++ b/src/VLCInput.cpp
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ void VLCInput::prepare()
     // Launch VLC
     m_vlc = libvlc_new(arg_ix, vlc_args);
 
+    if (m_vlc == nullptr) {
+        throw runtime_error("VLC initialisation failed");
+    }
+
     libvlc_set_exit_handler(m_vlc, handleVLCExit, this);
 
     // Load the media
-- 
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