[vlc] Memory leak when receiving a multicast stream

[James W. Mills]

Hello,

I am using vlc to stream an mp3 over a multicast transport stream like this:

vlc 01.mp3 --sout '#std{mux=ts,access=udp,url=239.255.1.1}' --loop

and receiving the stream like this:

vlc udp://@239.255.1.1

I have noticed that as long as the stream is being received, the 
receiver memory footprint grows.  If I stop streaming, the receiver 
memory footprint stops growing, but does not shrink.  If I start it 
again, the memory footprint continues to grow.

I am using 0.8.6a, and have tested receiving the multicast stream on 
Linux using the pre-built vlc binary for Ubuntu, as well as one built 
from source for a Linux ARM machine.  Both exhibit the same behavior, 
although with ~64MB of RAM, the ARM machine's problem is much more 
pronounced.  In less that five minutes vlc is using 29.2% of the 
available memory.

Both builds are using libdvbpsi 0.1.5.

Has anyone else noticed this problem?

Thanks,
~james

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