[vlc] Re: Memory leak when receiving a multicast stream

[Nikos Antonopoulos]

hi there,

I've noticed the same effect and i stream mulitple (vlm) video and audio 
in unicast http (encoded in h264/mp3). I've been on this the past couple 
of days but haven't really found much. I've noticed though that this 
problem (in my opinion 100% due to VLC)  was occuring under Ubuntu 
Breezy but NOT under Ubuntu Dapper (probably the latter does some sort 
of garbage collection on its own??). You ll get more questions than 
answers from me i guess...

I'll let u know if i get anywhere...

Nik


James W. Mills wrote:
> 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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