[vlc-devel] Re: huge leak when attempting to play mosaic (libmpeg2.c/DecodeBlock)

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005, Wallace Wadge wrote :
> Has anyone successfully set up a mosaic playout? I get a massive memory leak 
> (as in 8% of memory gobbled up every second) when trying with 4 streams
> 
> Valgrind shows that the problem appears to originate from DecodeBlock in 
> libmpeg2.c. I've noticed that p_pic is being lost and thus also p_pic->data 
> but I'm unsure of the architecture of vlc (i.e. who is supposed to dealloc 
> that memory since DecodeBlock never terminates.
> 

Did you read this ?

http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/Mosaic

This seems to be caused by a lack of the --mosaic-keep-picture option
(yes, mosaic is kludgy at the moment).

-- 
BigBen

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