[PD] mp3write~ memoryleak

[Yves Degoyon]

sorry, i'm recording a radio show here
for half an hour and still not a leak
in mp3write~.

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Joreg Diessl wrote:

>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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