[MPlayer-users] Re: memleak in cvs

[Ed Sweetman]

Read it.  I posted all the relevent information it said i should.  

mplayer -v 
MPlayer CVS-020819-18:20-2.95.4

it's the latest cvs (despite the doc updates of late) of mplayer as of
yesterday. 


It does seem to only show up when using the gui.  But are you saying
that the gui is not part of mplayer?  

I find it funny that you consider the gui not a part of mplayer.  there
are several audio outputs and video outputs and now there are two user
interfaces, some may be experimental or buggy but it's still mplayer.
It's obvious that the gui is now an mplayer feature just as much as your
different audio and video interfaces are, this is just a different user
interface.  There have to be some core developers using the gui in order
to develop it and it's obvious that it is getting actively developed and
core developers do best to compile mplayer with as many of the features
their project has that they can and test them so obvious situations like
this get caught before going out cvs or at least not very long in cvs.  

I could be wrong though and if none of the core developers consider the
gui part of mplayer to be part of mplayer (and the site says it is) then
maybe they should take it out and the gui should be developed as a
frontend like every other project that doesn't want to deal with a gui
has.  someone else then is responsible for the gui and gui problems are
completely separate from the backend program.  In mplayer's case the gui
is not simply a frontend so it is mplayer.   And the memory usage i'm
seeing must be caused by gui hooks because i dont see how gtk code can
be consuming the memory as video is playing.  I work with gtk and i dont
see mplayer doing anything that could be doing that.  But because the
gui is a part of mplayer it's unclear as to if code inside gui hooks
where the gtk code is attached to the player or in code for gtk use that
is going insane (file progress info etc?).  It doesn't pay to ignore
huge new parts of code to your project as a developer.