[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] macosx: fix assert on quit

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hi David,


> On 11. Feb 2019, at 19:10, David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This highly looks like a workaround for me. Did you take a look what is the root cause here?

The newly created objects do not get released in time when libvlccore the listeners to have detached from the playlist and its player.

> I would assume if we do refcounting of our new objects right, this would not be needed. Maybe we have a retain circle somewhere?

That could be possible - not too likely, but I did not investigate enough to negate :)

> If we do not want to search for those right away, can we maybe create a ticket to not forget about this?

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21914

Cheers,

Felix