[vlc] Re: Audio eats memory when PTS is not stable

[Cedric.Marodon at alumni.enseeiht.fr]

Maybe you can try to fix the memory leak with this part of code in
waveout.c Open function() :

/* Calculate the frame size in bytes */
p_aout->output.i_nb_samples = FRAME_SIZE;
#ifdef WINCE
/* Check the buffer size -- minimum of 1/4 second (word aligned) */
if ( p_aout->output.i_nb_samples < (p_aout-output.output.i_rate/4) )
     p_aout->output.i_nb_samples = ((p_aout->output.output.i_rate/4)+10)&~3;
//p_aout->output.i_nb_samples = ((p_aout->output.output.i_rate/4)+3)&~3;
#endif
aout_FormatPrepare( &p_aout->output.output );
#ifdef WINCE
p_aout->output.output.i_frame_length = p_aout->output.i_nb_samples;
p_aout->output.p_sys->i_buffer_size = p_aout->output.i_nb_samples *
     p_aout->output.output.i_bytes_per_frame;
#else
p_aout->output.p_sys->i_buffer_size = FRAME_SIZE *
     p_aout->output.output.i_bytes_per_frame;
#endif

In the Windows CE API, the waveout buffer length must contain at least a
number of samples equal to a quarter second. If VLC asks for a smaller
buffer, the minimal length is allocated and each buffer will not be free
correctly.

Another memory leak found : do not forget to see if p_in is freed in ugly
or linear audio resampler !

Hope this help ^_^


MixerAnderson

> As stated in a previous post. I have fixed the BIG leak, now there is just
> a
> small leak. I modified filters.c FiltersHintBuffers and changed
>
>             p_first_alloc->i_alloc_type = AOUT_ALLOC_STACK;
> to
>             p_first_alloc->i_alloc_type = AOUT_ALLOC_HEAP;
>
> 	That fixed the BIG leak.
>
> 	Now I get a small leak that seems to vary but is always in 4096bytes
> chunks. I am pretty sure it has to do with audio because I am listening to
> a
> Radio channel that has no Video and memory slower decreases.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf
> Of
> John Anderson
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:10 PM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: Audio eats memory when PTS is not stable
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gildas Bazin" <gbazin at altern.org>
> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:06 PM
> Subject: [vlc] Re: Audio eats memory when PTS is not stable
>
>
>> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 15:52, Rick Davis wrote:
>> > All,
>> >  When there are audio problems on a feed, the audio logic eats memory
>> > real fast. I am trying to run version 0.8.0 on Windows CE 5.0. I am
>> watching
>> > a live feed and there appears to be PTS problems. The audio logic eats
>> about
>> > 600KB of memory every second. Needless to say, on Windows CE it
>> doesn't
>> run
>> > for long.
>> >
>>
>> Could you try to make sure the problem comes from the audio output ?
>> Try to run VLC with --noaudio to check that the leak disappear.
>>
>> As for the PTS messages, you might be able to improve that by increasing
> the
>> caching with --udp-caching 600.
>
> He's probably on to something.  I had the same memory leak when playing a
> networked streamed MPEG-2 PS video on my RH9 Linux box that had no sound
> card.  If I turned off audio on the streaming source the memory leak
> disappeared.
>
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