[MPlayer-users] Mplayer memory leak?

[Gábor Lénárt]

Hi!

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:11:27AM +0100, Johan Winas wrote:
>  I'm using mplayer for another purpos, I take snapshots from live video
> streams.
>  The things works like this.
>  I make a small file (about 1Mb) with mpeg data, from the stream.
>  And then I run mplayer on it, with save to png, and only to devode the
> first 5 frames.

Well, so do you launch mplayer from a crontab or similar every time?
Beacuse if mplayer quits, you shouldn't have got unallocated memory.
It's simply a kernel issue, not MPlayer.

- Gabor