Fixed memory leak latest beta

[PLUCKYHD]

Does anyone know in more detail what exactly was wrong in the get imageasbuferred call?

Memory leak? I am taking that to mean it was taking excessive memory?

When a studio update like this comes out do you have to be running the beta to have the advantages of the fix or just code In the beta?

I am wondering if this is what was slowing one of my screens down

[stuckless]

A memory leak means that a process allocates/reserves memory but doesn't release it when it's done. The eventual outcome is that an application will eventually run out out memory.

According the releasenotes, the core STV doesn't use GetBufferedImage so, this memory leak will not exist there. I don't know if sagemc uses GetBufferedImage, but i can tell you for sure that GetBufferedImage is used in the phoenix image apis. So if you are using those, then the memory leak would have been present, and the eventual outcome is that you'd run out of memory.

[MeInMaui]

BTW, the memory leak was found using the Phoenix api.

[Narflex]

Thanks for the help on that one Mike

[MeInMaui]

No no no, Thank YOU!

[PLUCKYHD]

Okay mike can you help me on this one I am currently using buffered image and then creating a reflection but cannot get this call to work by prefixing with phoenix_api

What am I doing wrong I would prefer using the phoenix Api as it is probably more efficient and future proof

[MeInMaui]

Try using

phoenix_api_CreateReflection( Image )

(where Image is the path to the image file) and feeding the result into an image widget.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Try using

phoenix_api_CreateReflection( Image )

(where Image is the path to the image file) and feeding the result into an image widget.

Okay so it has to be a path file I think that is what is getting me is I am trying to reflect an attribute that is the phoenix art cover

I am guessing that is not possible with phoenix as it is with standard image utils?

[stuckless]

Phoenix fanart apis return image paths, so if you using phoenix_api_GetFanartPoster(), then it will be a file path. The CreateReflection() api is an expensive operation and as such, it should be called with a filepath so that the operation can be cached. You should be able to call CreateReflection with a standard Sage Image or a Java Buffered Image, but it will apply the transformation each time and it will not be cached (at least not on the filesystem)

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Phoenix fanart apis return image paths, so if you using phoenix_api_GetFanartPoster(), then it will be a file path. The CreateReflection() api is an expensive operation and as such, it should be called with a filepath so that the operation can be cached. You should be able to call CreateReflection with a standard Sage Image or a Java Buffered Image, but it will apply the transformation each time and it will not be cached (at least not on the filesystem)

Stuckless,

This is great news I have this coded however it is only half working. It does create the reflection in my cache/scaled images directory. However it does not display anything. I have it feeding a image widget but there is nothing displayed.

[jaminben]

So using the code as show in my image below should work? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick? I've only used text widgets to display what each call is getting, replacing with image widgets does nothing.

Cheers

Ben

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by jaminben

So using the code as show in my image below should work? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick? I've only used text widgets to display what each call is getting, replacing with image widgets does nothing.

Cheers

Ben

You are where I am if you look in your scaled directory it is reflected and caching it in the filesystem. But putting a image widget gets you nothing.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by jaminben

So using the code as show in my image below should work? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick? I've only used text widgets to display what each call is getting, replacing with image widgets does nothing.

Cheers

Ben

You also know you don't need that poster call first you can just create reflection off the getfanar call.

[PLUCKYHD]

Well I have tried just about everything I can think of they get cached just fine reflected and all but I cannot get an output into the interface for the life of me.

Hoping Mike can chime in here...

[MeInMaui]

Did you feed the CreateReflection() call into an image widget? I'm using it with no problems, so I know it works.

Aloha,
Mike

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Did you feed the CreateReflection() into an image widget? I'm using it with no problems, so I know it works.

Aloha,
Mike

Yes here is a screen cap

reflectioncode

Like I said it is creating the reflections in the sagetv/cached/images/scaled
directory so I think I am calling it write there are no properties in the image widget but still I Get nothing.

[PLUCKYHD]

Also don't know what they are suppose to look like but here is one of them it is creating in the scaled directory

reflected

[MeInMaui]

Looks like you're running an old version of the Phoenix api. It should be caching the image as a .png file. That's probably your problem.

Aloha,
Mike

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Looks like you're running an old version of the Phoenix api. It should be caching the image as a .png file. That's probably your problem.

Aloha,
Mike

Sagemc says I am running 1.25-beta1 is that not the latest?

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Sagemc says I am running 1.25-beta1 is that not the latest?

How the heck did you get that?!?!

The only publicly released version of the Phoenix API is v1.23, which is available in the downloads section. Anything else is a private internal build and not available for general use.