[minimoo]

It seems closing a Player object, and setting it and its Controls to null, doesn't free up memory on the 6680. After several cycles of opening and closing in this way the phone throws an out of memory error.

Can anyone suggest fixes?

I'm loading the videos from the web if that makes any difference.

public void open()
{
            thread = new Thread(this);
            thread.start();
}

public void stop()
{
        try
        {
            p.stop();
        }
        catch(Exception e){ }
}

public void close()
{

  try
  {
      if(control!=null)
      {
           control.setVisible(false);
           control = null;
      }
      
     if(p!=null)
     {
               p.close();
               p = null;
      }

      thread = null;
      }
      catch(Exception e){ }
}

public void run()
{
     try
     {
       p = Manager.createPlayer(url);
       p.prefetch();
       control = (VideoControl)p.getControl("VideoControl");
       append((Item)(control.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_GUI_PRIMITIVE, null)));
        control.setVisible(true);
      }
      catch(Exception e){ }
}

public void play()
{
    try
    {
        p.start();
     }
     catch(Exception e){ }
}

[dcrocha]

Hi, how did you reach the conclusion that memory is not being freed up? Have you tried to check the amount of heap memory available before/after you use the player?

Daniel

[minimoo]

It throws an exception with the message Symbian OS Error -4, which is out of memory right?

I'm not checking memory before opening the player. I'll change it to do that and see what I get, [but I'm sure I read on this forum that the method is unreliable on the 6680] Sorry, I was mistaken it's the N80.