2017-04-28 16:52 GMT+02:00 Guilherme de Oliveira Costa <
guilherme.olive...@autotrac.com.br>:

> I am using ffmpeg record a video from a webcam, but the memory usage is
> very high, and keeps increasing with video length.
>
> For example, I use an embedded device with 64 MB of RAM, and when I
> recorded a 30 minute video, I was left with 2MB of RAM in the last minutes
> of the recording.
>

​I'm wondering, how do you check how much "free" memory you have while
ffmpeg is running? Since it didn't OOM or die, it might just have been
cache from the OS, which will gracefully yield if another program request
it.
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