[vlc-devel] Re: DirectShow Input Problem on Current Builds of VLC

[Mark Moriarty]

Damien --
I compiled this morning (EST), tried it at work.
The Osprey is working -- video displaying, Viewcast's (Osprey vendor)
control panel applet opening fine.

I did notice a massive memory leak when I stream the input, and documented
what's happenning on the forum.  Essentially, if I run an MPEG4 stream (UDP)
of the dshow input, memory use surges rapidly -- VLC memory use > 250
megabytes in one minute, plus the CPU is absolutely pegged (99+%
utilization).  The particular machine I worked with today is weak CPU-wise,
only 800 MHz, so I'm curious if that may just be a problem with too much
data from dshow for the streaming portion to handle?  (Is there any internal
signalling between the dshow input parser, the transcode engine, and the
streaming multiplexer, or perhaps the dshow just keeps shoveling frames and
they keep building in a queue?)  I'll try again tomorrow with a more
powerful PC, one of our 2+GHz jobs.

I also saw a CapturePin warning, forgot to grab a copy of the message at
work, that popped up maybe every 5 seconds.  For comparison I checked the
pre-0.7.2 version of VLC, with the 5 March dshow -- that version was also
leaking memory badly on my lightweight CPU, maxing out CPU use, but did not
generate the CapturePin warning messages.

Anyhow, having the Osprey work in any way is a huge plus for me.

Thank you.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org]
On Behalf Of Damien Fouilleul
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:17 AM
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: DirectShow Input Problem on Current Builds of VLC

Mark Moriarty wrote:

>No luck with the latest Osprey drivers, so anything that could be done 
>to add the leniency back in would be great.
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>
I've just commited a change that should fix your problem, keep me posted

--
This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ To
unsubscribe, please read http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>

-- 
This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>