SUMMARY: Ram leak in kdenlive when playing video (not rendering, but playing in the editor--also happens when scrubbing around) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open kdenlive portable (windows) and put a video on the track 2. make sure taskmanager is open to observe the crispy 😘👌 3. hit play and watch ram usage go insane OBSERVED RESULT ram usage keeps getting larger. I have 16 gb of ram and its going to like 12 gb of swap usage before my pc gets so slow I have to close kdenlive EXPECTED RESULT doesnt do ^^^ when playing video SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10, 20h2, 19042.985 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION feel free to send me an email (it says my email is public) if you have any questions, because its open source and im a programmer i may try to take a look but i dont have high hopes as im fairly noob to it. And for those of you wondering on why it takes 12 gb of swap to slow my pc its because i use a 970 pro ssd 🥰.
okay yeah i have no chance knowing how code confused aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
oh i also forgot it only does this on windows, when running on my laptop (debian kde plasma) it is fine. also if whoever is taking care of this feels in a patient mood I would like to know what in the code went wrong as I am trying to learn as much as possible and c++ is my recent desired lang. I sorta know javascript 🤷♂️.
Thank you for the report. We are aware of the RAM issue: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/970 . A solution could that WIP https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/216 . If you have a solution let us know.
Hey, thanks for not immediately shooting down my report, thats what usually happens to me... I will let you know if I do find a solution however I wouldn't hold my breath as I'm way too noob to even understand half the code and I'm really busy with school rapping up. Like I said I would be interested in staying in the loop if anyone else figures it out.