[MPlayer-users] MPlayer memory leak

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 06 September 2005 at 21:28, Umer Naseer wrote:
> Dear Gurus,
> I am facing a very basic problem in MPlayer1.0pre7 although i tried all
> the versions from MPlayer0.93.
> The problem is that when i run a video playlist via mplayer, it memory
> leaks. i can see the memory occupying using top command, against the
> mplayer process. after 2 hours when free memory decreases to 0 the linux
> machine hangs. the simple command that i issue to run mplayer is as
> follows:
> mplayer -playlist playlist.txt -vo vesa -fs -fixed-vo -loop 0
> Please guide me how to solve this memory leak issue. I have a very short
> deadline to make it running.

Someone reported that -fixed-vo option leaks memory recently, but it
hasn't been verified yet. Try dropping it from your command and see if it
helps.

Regards,
R.

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