[Libav-user] Possible memory leak with respect to cleaning up RtpMuxContexts

[Eric Reichert]

I’ve only been working with the FFMPEG libs (directly) for a few weeks so
 I’m not sure about what I’ve found.

I’ve created a short program that demonstrates the problem.  The program can be found at https://github.com/trafficland/rtpmemleak.

There’s a much more detailed explanation which can be found here https://github.com/trafficland/rtpmemleak/blob/master/README.md.

The short version is that after streaming packets to a multicast address using a RTP formatted stream, the RtpMuxContext.buf field is not released by avformat_close_input.

The only way to clean up that field is to do it manually as follows (a snippet from the code found at the links).

//*** The memory assigned to dstFmtCtxt->priv_data->buf must be cleaned up manually as it is not cleaned up by avformat_close_input
//*** Comment out the next 2 lines and run valgrind to see the leak stats.
RTPMuxContext* x = (struct RTPMuxContext *) dstFmtCtxt->priv_data;
av_free(x->buf);
avformat_close_input(&dstFmtCtxt);

Sample valgrind reports can be found at the links as well.

Is this a genuine leak or am I missing a cleanup call?

Eric Reichert




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