[GEM-dev] Memory leak in pix_film /pix_movie

[Steffen Kraska]

hello,
thanks for the answer.
my sytem :
macbook air 2012
core i5 1,8 ghz
8gb ram
OSX 10.8.2

pd-extended (copyed from console )
[import] $Revision: 1.2 $
     [import] is still in development, the interface could change!
     compiled against Pd version 0.42.5
libdir loader $Revision: 1.8 $
     compiled on Sep 22 2010 at 03:41:35
     compiled against Pd version 0.42.5.extended
GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia
GEM: ver: 0.92.3
GEM: compiled: Sep 22 2010
GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: Authors :    Mark Danks (original version)
GEM:        Chris Clepper
GEM:        Cyrille Henry
GEM:        IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: with help by Guenter Geiger, Daniel Heckenberg, James Tittle, 
Hans-Christop Steiner, et al.
GEM: found a bug? miss a feature? please report it:
GEM:     homepage http://gem.iem.at/
GEM:     bug-tracker http://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem/
GEM:     mailing-list http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev/
GEM: compiled for SIMD architecture: SSE2 MMX
GEM: using SSE2 optimization

i dont know what video backend means, i have quicktime and vlc 
installed, for output i use the Macbook screen.

greetings
steffen

> IOhannes m zmoelnig <mailto:zmoelnig at iem.at>
> December 13, 2012 4:21 PM
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> could you please provide more information about your system?
> e.g.
> which operating system?
> which version of Gem (i don't track which version of Gem is included
> in which version of PdX)?
> which video-backends are installed / are you using?
>
> you can find most of this information in the Pd-Console.
>
>
> if you are using w32, there is a known file-handle leak (but not a
> memory leak!) which is unfixable with Pd<=0.43.
>
> fgamd
> IOhannes
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> Steffen Kraska <mailto:stefffens at googlemail.com>
> December 13, 2012 3:37 PM
> Hello,
> i am currently working on a patch that,
> loads random movie samples into gemwin via pix_film. i reconized 
> memory related crashes,
> that seem to originate in a memory leak in pix_film.
> i could reproduce the error with the pix_film helpfile. If you look at 
> pd's used memory,
> it increases everytime you load a new file and it does not flush, or 
> get empty again.
> so my pd crashes arround 3GB of ram used
> my system is a mba 2012 with 8gb ram. pd is 0.42.5 extended (standart 
> download from the website).
> is there some way to unload the movie, or clear the memory ?
> any help would be apreciated.
> greetings
> steffen
>
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