[vlc] Re: help with error deciphering.

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Kim Schulz wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:26:44 +0200
> Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Kim Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:34:48 +0200, Jean-Paul Saman
>>> <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl> wrote:
>>>> Kim Schulz wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>> What causes an error like this? It seems like it gets triggered by
>>>> changes to the
>>>>> timestamp in the RTP header when I stream h263 data.
>>>>>
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF07E0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
>>>>> main error: picture 00DF08F0 refcount is -1
>>>>> ffmpeg error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame
>>>> (computer too slow ?)
>>>> You have a memory leak in your code. The code tries to reference a
>>>> picture_t that has -1 as reference count. Either it never
>>>> increased it or decreased it more then once.
>>>>
>>>> Is this with unmodified vlc code or did you made changes?? VLC
>>>> version? OS ?
>>>>
>>>> The ffmpeg error basically means there is a major buffer underrun.
>>>>
>>>> Gtz,
>>>> Jean-Paul Saman.
>>> This is with an unmodified version of VLC 0.8.6b for windows. The
>>> stream it is receiving is one I create and send myself. 
>> Are you sure the timestamps are sane?
> 
> 
> define sane :-) 
> I have tried several different approaches. the one that seemed to work
> the best was to simply sum the payload size for each frame. According
> to one of the ffmpeg guys, this should be an ok way to do it - as long
> as the timestamp is increasing for each frame (but is the samme for all
> packets containing fragments of the same frame). 
> 
> 
> 
That sounds insane ;-)

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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