[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Enhance VDPAU documentation

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Uoti pointed out on -cvslog that libavcodec is allocating memory 
> (typically 1kB) that it never frees (it has no pointers to the allocated 
> memory).
> ffmpeg (the executable) never calls the function, so there is no leak. 
> MPlayer does the allocation when -vc *vdpau are used, and frees the 
> buffers (since today). valgrind never showed leaks, because the pointer to 
> the memory was a static struct (while I suppose it is dynamically 
> allocated in Uoti's fork, so there was probably a true leak).

I applied a patch changing the documentation.

Carl Eugen