[mythtv-users] Severe Memory leak in 0.15.1?

[John Goerzen]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:46:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:19:53PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > My mythtv user (which runs the frontend) has about 16M of complains in
> > its .xsession-errors, such as:
> > 
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 28
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 29
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]concealing errors
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]skiped MB in I frame at 42 4
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 25
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 26
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x407d2490]skiped MB in I frame at 2 27
> 
> That's the MPEG2 decoder being rather unhappy with the data stream. I
> couldn't tell you why though. What's your capture hardware?

I have a PVR-250 capturing from analog input.  The machine is a Athlon
XP 2800+ (1.8GHz) with 256MB RAM and 160GB ATA/133 HDD.

> Assuming that you are receiving analog TV, and therefore encoding to
> MPEG either in hardware (PVR-x50) or software, I can't see how you would
> get corrupt MPEG data. (I'm using DVB where corruption can occur due to
> transmission/reception faults.)

Could hitting swap hard cause this, perhaps because the swap use meant
the machine couldn't keep up with the input?

-- John