On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 07:31:26PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just realized I totally forgot to reply to your private mail. Very sorry about
> that, I've been terribly busy and simply forgot.
> 

No problem. I assumed you were busy or on vacation. 

> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:26:43 -0500, Keith Lawson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2013-12-09 10:51, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > 
> > > On 09/12/13 15:16, [email protected]:
> > > 
> > >> From: Keith Lawson <[email protected]> --- I created this 
> > >> patch to make the action for EOF on the secondary input configurable 
> > >> with the overlay filter so I could use a filtergraph that combines the 
> > >> trim, delogo and overlay filters into a filtergraph to "mask" a 
> > >> portion of a video like this: I've tested the command above and it 
> > >> works for masking most portions of videos however I'm encountering 
> > >> problems masking near the end of videos. avconv quickly consumes all 
> > >> memory and swap sometimes when the trim range is near the end of the 
> > >> video. The process eventually finishes but there's obviously a memory 
> > >> issue. I'm hoping someone can assist me in troubleshooting that 
> > >> problem.
> > > 
> > > This seems quite an annoying bug
> > > 
> > 
> > It definitely is. So far I'm unable to reproduce it reliably so once I 
> > have an example I'll post the video files and command line I'm using. 
> > Unfortunately so far all the videos I've encountered this on are for one 
> > of my customers and contain confidential information.
> > 
> 
> The problem is most likely not caused by your patch, so it can go in without
> fixing the bug first (though it'd certainly be nice)
>

My patch is so minor I didn't think it was the cause of the memory leak. 
Hopfully I'll be able to reproduce this reliably and provide a patch. 

> > >> I'd like to complete the work required to have the new switch added to 
> > >> the master repository so I'm submitting it here for review. I haven't 
> > >> documented the new switch yet so pointers to how to do that would be 
> > >> helpful.
> > > 
> > > Probably the naming might be changed since took me a bit to match
> > > seofact with it, the idea itself is sound and we should get this in =)
> > > 
> > 
> > Do you mean change the name of the switch? I'm open to suggestions that 
> > are more in line with other switch names in the project and easier to 
> > understand.
> 
> I agree with Luca here, we generally prefer longer names that are easier to
> understand (shorter aliases can be added where appropriate).
> 
> Something like 'eof_action' or 'eof_behavior' would be good names IMO
> 

I have made this change to rename the switch to 'eof_action'. Should I cut and 
paste the new patch into this thread or start a new thread to submit the new 
patch? 

> -- 
> Anton Khirnov

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