[PD] mp3write~ memoryleak

joreg joreg at gmx.at
Mon Mar 17 17:53:00 CET 2003


halo.

OM> mp3write~ dows not close the file once you've stopped recording. So you have to
OM> quit Pd or load/open another file before you can do anything else with the file
OM> you just recorded...

OM> Olaf

yes. thats what i am doing in my patch.
>> the attached patch is a simplified version of the patch i am using.
>> after stopping the mp3write~ i seem to have to open a dummy.mp3 file to
>> release the other file to make it possible for another application to copy
>> it.
but memory gets only released after i quit pd. opening another file is
not enough.

thankes.
joreg.

OM> Joreg Diessl schrieb:

>> halo.
>>
>> it took me a long time to find out why my pc freezes after about 30
>> minutes of operation. but now i think i found something.
>>
>> i am using [mp3write~] to generate an mp3 file that is then taken by
>> an other program and moved to a different folder (i can't do that
>> within pd, right?). now i noticed that my system is continuously
>> loosing memory while this patch is running. when there is no more
>> physical memory available (which i am observing with taskmanager) the
>> system freezes. closing pd priort to a freeze releases all the memory again.
>>
>> the attached patch is a simplified version of the patch i am using.
>> after stopping the mp3write~ i seem to have to open a dummy.mp3 file to
>> release the other file to make it possible for another application to copy
>> it. for my purpose i would use mode "truncate" of [mp3write~] then, but
>> using modes "truncate" or "append" doesn't seem to make a difference.
>>
>> using [writesf~] instead of [mp3write~] works. but i need .mp3 files.
>> this happens running pd 0.36-0 on w2k and wxp using mp3write~ version 0.1
>>
>> help meee youu.
>> joreg.
>>
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>>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                   Name: mp3write.pd
>>    mp3write.pd    Type: Ohne Angabe (application/octet-stream)
>>               Encoding: base64


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