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

[Wallace Wadge]

That works, but only when my input sources are video files on disk. When I 
switch my config to a udp streaming source, the leaks shoot up which is odd 
since I thought the input layers where pretty much independant from the rest 
of the system

Wallace

On 9/7/05, Benjamin Pracht <bigben+spam at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
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> BigBen
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