Memory leak only on Windows

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Thanks, Nicola. This indeed appears to free the memory correctly now.


On 27/02/15 10:38, Mailing List SVR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect the leak is related to d3dvideosink, please apply the d3d
> related commits  you can see here:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/log/?h=1.4
>
> and report back is the leak is gone,
>
> thanks
> Nicola
>
> Il 27/02/2015 09:21, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any memory leaks with video on Windows? I had a
>> memory leak previously, but that was my own fault (I was doing a
>> gst_buffer_map() and forgot to gst_buffer_unmap() afterwards.)
>>
>> On Linux, there is no leak. On Windows however, memory usage piles up
>> and up and up as videos play. This happens even with the simplest
>> "hello world" way of playing a video; creating a playbin, load a video
>> from a file and play it.
>>
>> The only "non-standard" things are the use of a statically built
>> gstreamer (with static plugins-base, plugins-good, plugins-bad [for
>> d3dvideosink] and gst-libav [for video decoding]) cross-compiled from
>> Linux to Windows with a MinGW-w64 cross-compiler (32-bit builds).
>>
>> The only plugins needed are registered before use:
>>
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(app);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(avi);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(coreelements);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(d3dsinkwrapper);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(libav);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(opengl);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(playback);
>>   GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(typefindfunctions);
>>
>> The majority of the work is done by the libav plugin, so no more
>> plugins are needed.
>>
>> Also, since I'm using Qt, I'm launching a GMainLoop in a GThread for
>> gstreamer to dispatch its events/messages, since on Windows Qt does
>> not utilize glib. However, doing the same on Linux with a Qt built
>> without glib support, does not result in any leaks, so it doesn't look
>> like this has anything to do with it.
>>
>> I'm using latest official tarballs for everything (1.4.5).
>>
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