[Mplayer-dvb] Memory leak in mplayer -tv

[Juri Haberland]

Olivier JACQUES wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As indicated in my previous post, I'm playing with mplayer tv support with 
> DVB output.
> While doing that, I noticed a big memory leak that leads to errors after 
> 2/3 minutes of watching TV.
> "video buffer full - dropping frame"
> The memory goes down from 50Mb available (just after I started mplayer) 
> down to 0 in 2-3 minutes.
> 
> Here is the command line I use:
> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -afm 9 -tv 
> driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=SECAM:channels=22-TF1,28-
> Canal:width=352:height=288:fps=25.00:immediatemode=0 -framedrop -input 
> conf=/root/.tuxtv/switch tv://
> 
> Note that replacing mpegpes by null gives the same effect.
> 
> Anything I can do to track this down? I tried running valgrind but I 
> didn't succeed.

Please ask on mplayer-dvb, mplayer-users or mplayer-devel.

Cheers,
Juri