[MPlayer-dev-eng] Memory troubles with embedding and NSTask

[Luca Barbato]

Peter MacWhinnie wrote:
> Currently, i am using MPlayer as an embedded media playback engine in my Mac application
> and i've hit a brick wall. 

Please fix your mailer first...

> The project is Cocoa, and I have MPlayer all wrapped up in to a nice
> class and it works fairly nicely, however,. I am having quite a bit of
> trouble when it comes to stopping MPlayer before its finished
> playback, it seems that MPlayer does not terminate quite as fast as my
> code to stop playback and clean up does. In fact if i release the
> NSTask object prematurely (inside '- (void)dealloc' most notably) it
> causes a bus error in my application and it dies. I am not quite sure
> what would be a good effective way to get around/solve this. Any help
> would be appreciated, thanks.

Cannot just avoid deallocing everything on stop but reuse everything as  is?

lu

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Luca Barbato

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