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

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:36:13 Wesley S. 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.

Works fine here. I'd like to see the whole subtitle file (at least, headers) 
and font that is used in this line.