[FFmpeg-devel] Memory leak in h264

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Tue Jan 22 21:01:44 CET 2008


On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:46:46PM -0500, Jeff Downs wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > i suspect that will break multithreaded decoding by using the same buffer
> > for all threads
> > 
> > the fix might be to always let init_duplicate_context allocate all
> > the *edge_emu_buffer, instead of just for the first context and then
> > allocate the H264Contexts and copy the MpegEncContexts into them
> 
> I'd already started on fixing it differently when I saw this, so here's 
> what I came up with. 

honestly, i dont think this is the cleanest way to solve it ...
I really think we should try to minimize the number of variables which get
initialized in mpegideo.c AND h264.c.

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If a bugfix only changes things apparently unrelated to the bug with no
further explanation, that is a good sign that the bugfix is wrong.
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