Need more information regarding Element States to play multiple media files in loop

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2014-04-07 at 22:06 -0700, Monalisa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am developing an application using qt gstreamer which need to play 4-5
> media files in loop continuously. The gstreamer manual says 
> "GST_STATE_NULL: this is the default state. No resources are allocated in
> this
> state, so, transitioning to it will free all resources." 
> On reaching end of stream I am setting the state to null and playing the
> next media, but it seems it is
> not freeing resources as there is a huge memory leak. Instead if I set the
> state to GST_STATE_READY there is no memory leak but after playing
> continuously
> for 1-2 hours, the video starts freezing. Please suggest if need to do
> something else to free the resources

What you describe alone shouldn't result in memory leaks in either way.
Please either provide a testcase that reproduces these leaks or check
with valgrind and/or massif where all the memory is leaked or otherwise
wasted.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
Expertise, Straight from the Source
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