[MEncoder-users] Fwd: Has the bug (mencoder -mc 0 -noskip has memory leak for 5.1 audio stream) fixed?

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

On 4/19/05, Bo Xie <xiebopublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I should post it here instead of mplayer-user maillist.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Xie Bo
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bo Xie <xiebopublic at gmail.com>
> Date: Apr 18, 2005 11:33 PM
> Subject: Has the bug (mencoder -mc 0 -noskip has memory leak for 5.1
> audio stream) fixed?
> To: MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I have met the same bug(with latest cvs source code) described by
> following poster in this maillist one year ago, and want to make sure
> whether anyone has any idea about it?
> ----------------
> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:47, Wayde Milas wrote:
> > I've read the bug submitting howto and I'm trying my best to submit a
> > well informed bug.
> >
> > The full dump is attached as a txt file. I am using the cvs versions of
> > ffmpeg and mplayer as of 3/4/04
> >
> > Observations:
> >
> > 1) If I do -nosound the bug does not appear.
> > 2) The bug does not appear if the audio stream is 2.0. It only seems to
> > manifest on a 5.1 stream.
> > 3) I've used multiple DVD's. It crops up at the same place (secondwise)
> > no matter what dvd I use.
> > 4) I've tried various codec options. Something as simple as:
> > mencoder dvd://1 -o Starwars2.avi -mc 0 -noskip -skiplimit 0 -oac copy
> > -ovc lavc -vf crop=720:362:0:58 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=2
> > still exhibits the behavior.
> >
> > I'd be glad to expand on the bug report. Just tell me what info you
> > need.
> >
> > Wayde
> >
> >
> 
> I've compiled mplayer on a pent4 box and a amd athlon xp box and they
> both exhiobit this same behavior. anyone have a clue as to what
> happening?


My guess is that the destination file grows larger than 2GB. I'm not
sure if MEncoder/MPlayer is supposed to support that.

Guillaume