Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#8491 new defect

Memory utilization increases infinitely with mp4 muxing

Reported by: Oleg Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: avformat
Version: git-master Keywords: mov
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

I want to mux h264 stream into mp4 container. Memory usage of ffmpeg process increases infinitely over time .
For example, I tried to mux 1920x1080 stream repeatedly many times into one output file. Rate of muxing was ~26000 fps. Memory utilization increased by 200MB in 90 sec.
See chart in attachments (1920x1080, 60 fps, 6hrs, memory utilization increased by 80MB).
If I try to mux into flv container (-f flv "out.flv"), I don't observe this issue.

How to reproduce:

% ffmpeg -i test.h264 -c:v copy -f mp4 "out.mp4"

I measure memory usage with Windows Task Manager and with Performance Monitor.
ffmpeg-20200115-0dc0837 for Windows (nightly build)

Attachments (3)

test.h264 (2.2 MB ) - added by Oleg 4 years ago.
input stream
60_1.png (69.9 KB ) - added by Oleg 4 years ago.
ffmpeg-20200121-125447.log (6.3 KB ) - added by Oleg 4 years ago.
ffmpeg -v 9 -loglevel 99 log

Change History (9)

by Oleg, 4 years ago

Attachment: test.h264 added

input stream

by Oleg, 4 years ago

Attachment: 60_1.png added

by Oleg, 4 years ago

Attachment: ffmpeg-20200121-125447.log added

ffmpeg -v 9 -loglevel 99 log

comment:1 by Oleg, 4 years ago

Summary: Memory utilization increase with mp4 muxingMemory utilization increases infinitely in with mp4 muxing

comment:2 by Oleg, 4 years ago

Summary: Memory utilization increases infinitely in with mp4 muxingMemory utilization increases infinitely with mp4 muxing

comment:3 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 4 years ago

Component: undeterminedavformat
Keywords: mov added; memory mux mp4 removed

I tested the provided command line with the sample you attached and only see a memory footprint of 32MB:

$ ffmpeg -benchmark -i test.h264 -c:v copy -f mp4 "out.mp4"
ffmpeg version N-96463-g2bae3da79e Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (SUSE Linux)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-gnutls --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libaom
  libavutil      56. 38.100 / 56. 38.100
  libavcodec     58. 66.100 / 58. 66.100
  libavformat    58. 35.104 / 58. 35.104
  libavdevice    58.  9.103 / 58.  9.103
  libavfilter     7. 71.100 /  7. 71.100
  libswscale      5.  6.100 /  5.  6.100
  libswresample   3.  6.100 /  3.  6.100
  libpostproc    55.  6.100 / 55.  6.100
Input #0, h264, from 'test.h264':
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1200k tbn, 120 tbc
Output #0, mp4, to 'out.mp4':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf58.35.104
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1200k tbn, 1200k tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[mp4] Timestamps are unset in a packet for stream 0. This is deprecated and will stop working in the future. Fix your code to set the timestamps properly
frame=  500 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize=    2267kB time=00:00:08.34 bitrate=2226.6kbits/s speed=2.22e+03x    
video:2261kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.266425%
bench: utime=0.004s stime=0.000s rtime=0.004s
bench: maxrss=31928kB

comment:4 by Oleg, 4 years ago

Hi

Please try to read input file repeatedly many times.
smth like that:

ffmpeg -f concat -i "input.txt" ...

where input.txt contains (e.g. 5000 lines):

file 'test.h264'
file 'test.h264'
file 'test.h264'
...
file 'test.h264'

I think issue will appear in this case.

in reply to:  description ; comment:5 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 4 years ago

Replying to olpipi:

If I try to mux into flv container (-f flv "out.flv"), I don't observe this issue.

They are different, it is a property of mov (mp4) output that it needs to allocate memory to record the track clusters, this is increasing over time.

in reply to:  5 comment:6 by Oleg, 4 years ago

Replying to cehoyos:

They are different, it is a property of mov (mp4) output that it needs to allocate memory to record the track clusters, this is increasing over time.

So is this normal that memory footprint grows infinitely?
If I use 32bit ffmpeg, it will crash after 4GB memory would be used, wouldn't it?

Could you please point where these "track clusters" are used in code?

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