[MPlayer-users] MPlayer memory leak

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 22:46, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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.
> 

Unfortunately -loop seems to leak memory too, atleast with http:// streams.

Try this little thingy, and you'll see memory usage grow pretty quickly:

mplayer -loop 0 http://memleak

The rapid looping due to the URL being invalid speeds up the leaking :-)