[Live-devel] key frames (I-frames) in the recorded AVI file

[Ross Finlayson]

>One thing that should be taken into account. The memory allocated by 
>AVIFileIndex for index grows as video is being received and 
>recorded, because index section should be added to the very end of 
>AVI file, just before closure. Although size of index data is very 
>small comparing to video data, it still could potentionally exhaust 
>all available memory after the very long recording (many hours).

Yes, it turns out that we have the same issue for 
"QuickTimeFileSink".  Unfortunately there isn'e anything we can do 
about this; these file formats are not well-designed for the purpose 
of recording incoming streams.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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