[MPlayer-users] Bug in libssa: memory leak and faulty rendering

[Wesley S.]

2008/2/10, ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com>:
>
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:36:13 +0100
> "Wesley S." <wesley at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, a friend informed me of a bug in the current mplayer svn version. I
> took
> > a closer look at it and found out that a huge memleak is caused by
> libssa.
> > libssa will start eating away all the ram when the following line gets
> > processed, and mplayer will freeze:
> > "Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.09,0:01:44.04,f.o.
> >
> [GitS],,0000,0000,0000,,{\move(530,400,440,220)}{\frx-20}{\fry-50}{\frz-65}{\fscy110}{\fscx120}{\fs55}{\1c&H376C56&\bord0\shad0.6}Niihama
> > Prefectural Police"
> > The culprit is the "fry"-function. When I set the fry-value higher
> mplayer
> > doesn't freeze.
> >
> > Probably related: a lot of things are dislocated on the screen when the
> text
> > is 'transformed'. I compared the libssa rendering with how VSFilter
> renders
> > everything, and there's a big difference.
> > There should probably be some extra error checking code somewhere to
> prevent
> > memleaks like this.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no such thing as libssa. There is libass though,
> libжопа
> то есть :)
>

Okay. I meant libass. Sorry for the confusion.

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