[gst-devel] Reuse of DecodeBin or PlayBin

[Jens Schmutzler]

>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.
>  
>
Just for the record...

I am using a fakesink as video output and an alsasink for audio output. 
In combination with either decodebin or playbin this leaks (depending on 
the media file) up to about 2MB in VIRT and about 1MB in RES. I updated 
to the new 0.10.9 release and all plugin modules are the latest stable 
versions.

Hope that helps a little.

Cheers,
Jens