[MPlayer-advusers] [BUG] Memory leak in vo_vesa with -fixed-vo

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:04:52AM -0500, Compn wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:07:59 +0600, Vladimir Voroshilov wrote:
> 
> >Hi, All
> >
> >I think, i have found memory leak in vo_vesa driver when mplayer is
> >used with -fixed-vo.
> 
> what is the status of vesa in mplayer? lrmi is required , but no one
> seems to have it installed.
> 
> what about including lrmi in mplayer so more people can use vesa? i get

While I generally agree with importing essential libraries, lrmi is
not only non-essential, but specific to a particular OS.

Also, the vesa vo used to have no external dependencies, IIRC. The
move to needing this external mess was apparently intentional; I think
Alex did it but I may be misremembering.

> a few questions about using mplayer without x in #mplayer per week. it
> would be nice to have another option besides svga/fb/cvidix .

Vesa really has very little value and great potential for instability.
Vesafb+(fbdev/cvidix) should work on any system where -vo vesa works,
and with a better privilege separation. I see no reason why vo_vesa
isn't just deprecated..

Rich