[vlc-devel] Once more the status of 1.0.0

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 26 juin 2009 23:47:13 Derk-Jan Hartman, vous avez écrit :
> On 24 jun 2009, at 16:03, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> > These are the only serious issues as far as I care.
> >
> > * art broken in windows build.
> > ** Caused by
> > http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a654d4a14edf1a3925cfa73
> >1c965652832f01ef2 , file:/// is used on win32
> > ** For 1.0 I think we can #ifdef WIN32 our way around this in the
> > Qt4 interface. I mean Qt4 is not used by WINCE right ?
> > ** Things that might still potentially be broken on Windows, but are
> > less important are modules/meta_engine/folder.c, http interface and
> > notify.
>
> This should be solved now, right ?
> I'd love to hear anything either way.
>
> > * leaks in libass
> > ** This is one serious leak of ass_render_frame() but i don't
> > understand how that thing works.
>
> 8 libvlccore.2.dylib RunThread video_output/video_output.c:1195
> 7 libvlccore.2.dylib vout_RenderPicture video_output/vout_pictures.c:444
> 6 libvlccore.2.dylib spu_RenderSubpictures video_output/
> vout_subpictures.c:399
> 5 liblibass_plugin.dylib UpdateRegions /Users/hartman/Development/vlc-
> old/modules/codec/libass.c:354
> 4 libass.3.dylib ass_render_frame
> 3 libass.3.dylib ass_render_event
> 2 libass.3.dylib render_text
> 1 libass.3.dylib render_overlap
> 0 libSystem.B.dylib calloc
>
> This looks like a leak of the ass_composite_cache. #mplayerdev advised
> me to try and use git://greg.geekmind.org/libass.git
> I have tried this, and it has the same leaky behaviour.
>
> > * crash in libmpeg2.c
> > ** https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2883
> > ** libmpeg2 now crashes on leaking pictures, which apparently can
> > still happen (bad mpeg2dec)
>
> At this time, I can only think to switch the default prio of libmpeg2
> to lower than that of avcodec...

Then we might as well remove libmpeg2 from the binaries... It's a waste of 
space otherwise.

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