[gst-devel] Reuse of DecodeBin or PlayBin

[Jan Schmidt]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:04 +0200, Jens Schmutzler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if it is possible to reuse Decodebin and/or Playbin for a new srcfile. In my program reusing them introduces memory leaks. The gst-plugins-base-0.10.8/gst/playback/README file says that "reusing" and "cleanup in READY state" is still on the TODO list (for both decodebin and playbin). The file is quite old (May 2005) so I do not know if this is still accurate... (I did not find any hints in the CVS changelog on this topic)
> 
> My program is supposed to play different video files one after another in a "infinite" loop. It works fine but memory usage increases for each newly loaded file. If I am not totally mistaken I need to reuse decodebin/playbin for this purpose?! 
> 
> Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction.
> 

Actually, I'm just looking at this exact issue. Playbin is supposed to
clean up all its memory when returning to the READY state. 

The increasing memory usage is a bug - I'm pretty sure playbin wasn't
doing this at some point in the past, and I'm trying to figure it out at
the moment.

J.