Hi, I can't reproduce this here, it sounds to me like it could be something specific to your system or build. Can you try this with the official Alpha 2 build and see if that works?

Also, please post a test file that includes everything up to right before you choose Image->Open and an example image that Blender freezes trying to open.

official alpha2 works good, the latest builds, from 28xxx the viewport I have this eror, also other paople in the forum have same problem :(

anyway, here a sample file :) just try to open the attached image by the UVeditor :)

thankyou!

I can confirm this behaviour with r28513 on Windows 7 64bit. Opening any image in uveditor through alt+o has blender hang when pressing [open] in file selector. Blender doesn't take any CPU, though - just becomes totally unresponsive.

Closed duplicate
[#22222] viewport background image load crash after 28237 builds (windows 64bit)
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22222&group_id=9&atid=498

Hi, I started looking into this today, but with latest revision 29074 I cannot redo this anymore.

I have been doing some updates to image format libraries, and there might have been changes since the report that somehow fixed this.

I close this report now. If the original reporter still experiences the reported behaviour, he can reopen this report.