[MPlayer-users] v4l record memory usage.
Marcin Bukat
wodz at soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl
Wed Dec 11 08:58:02 CET 2002
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> I use mencoder to record TV from a bttv card ( ATI TVWonder).
> command line like this:
> mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=320:height=240:amode=0:adevice=/dev/dsp \
> -o tv.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=56:mode=3 \
> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=900
>
> I run it on my machine with P4 2.0G, Mem=512MB
> MPlayer version is 0.90rc1
>
> The problem is :
> After start to run above command line, it use more and more
> memory and increase very fast until reached about 256MB.
> (I use 'top' to monitor the mem usage). It sames stoped memory
> requirment.
>
> If I use earlier snapshot version, it will still increase the
> memory useage, but slower, finally, begin memory swap...
> system hangs. Is it a memory-leak problem?
>
As written in manpage mencoder allocates ~50% of system mem as a buffer
(by default)
by
wodz
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