OSD Plugin Failure

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Some googling reveals that in GDI, you can only keep handles to 10,000 GDI objects per process, then it crashes.

Yeah, I pretty much guessed that would be the case given your original description of the problem.

Are the handles to the Bitmaps or Graphics objects passed by render() stored anywhere?

No, they're released immediately after they're used, but given the way you test works, its probably just a matter of the garbage collection not getting a chance to run.

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Hmm, well the crash occurs even if render() is only called once a second, too. It just takes three hours instead of three minutes. I think I tried forcing the garbage collection without it having any effect, but I'll stick some GC.Collect() statements back in and see if that might help.

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I've changed the way things are done in this area for VMR9 in the next release, which seems to help your problem. I've just now compiled up you test plugin, and its been running for a while now, and just ticked pass "MinimalTest: Render 45158".

I'm curious, if you used a either the VMR9 Custom or Overlay, did you have this problem?

[Snarky]

Hey, that's great! Thanks! I haven't tried the other renderers, I'll give that a shot in the mean time.

Edit: I tried the VMR7, Custom VMR9, and Overlay Manager renderers. In the custom renderer, the OSD doesn't show up at all. The overlay manager renderer runs fine without crashing, but very much slower than VMR9. VMR7 crashes in the same way as VMR9. For now, overlay provides an acceptable fallback, and I'm looking forward to the next version. Thanks again!