[MPlayer-users] Re: memleak in cvs

[Rémi Guyomarch]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:17:36PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm not a list member so cc me.  
> 
> I've been seeing memory usage patterns consistant with the kind of
> behavior you'd see if the player never freed the data it reads after
> decoding.  For instance, decoding a 58MB file results in memory usage
> that goes up until ~58MB is in use when the file is finished. A tiny
> portion of this memory, 5MB of so is freed when the player stops.  When
> playing another movie, it adds onto the previous mem usage. This
> behavior goes on until all memory is consumed.  
> 
> I'm decoding divx5 using the divx5linux lib but it doesn't seem to make
> a difference what i'm decoding.

Try with libavcodec. I bet such enormous leak is in
divx5linux. Remember that is the latest version from divx.com is an
*alpha* version :)

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Rémi