Massive memory footprint from rtmpdump

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 19:20:32 EST 2014


On 12/02/2014 23:41, Peter S Kirk wrote:
> For when download fails I make copies of the partial as it's downloading.
> Sometimes I can rename and use them to resume, sometimes not as rtmp
> generates error on file size. Any idea why some can be resumed and some
> not?

Not sure.  I think if garbage is written at the end of the file when the 
stream fails, rtmpdump isn't able to work back to the last keyframe, 
which is the suture point where it will start appending data.




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