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Sorry I know this is a dumb question, but what kind of test and log info shall I post here to make the discussion productive? By "aborting the program while running", do you mean something like sending a kill -SIGABRT? Doing that on a mac will lead to a crash report generated. Will that be...

Alright, Sanitizer caught something. The following happens, but not always:

The log is too long to paste here. See https://pastebin.com/29Rv3Trh

Regardless of whether this happens, the memory issue still seems to be there.

Since you mentioned VLC 3.x, here is a possible way to install it: 1. Using VLC 3 under Ubuntu 16 or lower To do this, make use of PPA. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vlc-3 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/meson sudo apt-get update &&...

Just tested by adding -fsanitize=address to g++ compiler option on OSX. No leak is detected, but memory consumption still goes up to 1.5G after playing ~1000 frames. Refer to http://www.voidcn.com/article/p-ofvdtpnv-bgn.html or https://github.com/berak/facereco/blob/master/VlcCapture.cpp for an idea...

I am testing a way to get RGB matrix from a RTSP stream with the Python (3.6) code at https://pastebin.com/CuVh2DgY Tested on several Environments: 1) OSX Mojave 10.14.1, VLC 3.0.4 2) Ubuntu 16.04/18.04, VLC 3.0.4 3) A docker container on the mac in 1), running Ubuntu 16.04 image In case 1) and 3), ...