[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Fixing memory leaks in VDA hardware decoding

[David Fuhrmann]

Hi,

I just retested the latest patch which suppose to fix the VDA memleaks (http://lists.libav.org/pipermail/libav-devel/2013-July/048949.html) and it seems that it works fine.
As discussed with lu_zero, this patch might be also applied to the libav repository, with some minor changes. I am not sure, what the status is about that, Luca?

Nevertheless, if it does not get applied for libav soon, I want to suggest to apply the patch locally inside the VLC contrib, to have the fix inside the VLC 2.1 release and to avoid deferring the VLC release even more because of that. Please see the two patches for that attached to this email.

Even if this might not be the cleanest solution, IMO it is better than releasing a VLC with leaking VDA decoding.

With best regards,
David



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