memleak on live m3u8 when not start playing

[0caspy]

Description

If open player with live m3u8, but not press start/play, memory will leak not releasing constantly refreshing m3u8.

Steps to reproduce

Explain in detail the exact steps necessary to reproduce the issue.

1. create player with live HLS stream.
2. open it, but NOT press play
3. wait and look for memory

Results

Expected

Constant memory usage

Actual

Memory usage increase
in 'heap snapshot' (chrome) i see strings objects with m3u8 content.
but outdated content not released, thus adding new string with refreshed m3u8 content every 'target duration' seconds.
as soon as you press 'play', no more string will be leaking. an outdated objects will be released on each m3u8 update.

Error output

no errors

Additional Information

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versions

videojs

7.5.4

browsers

Crome.
may be others too.

OSes

MacOS Mojave in my case

plugins

no plugins

[0caspy]

if put video on pause - the same story. memory not released upon m3u8 update

[gkatsev]

Hey, can you show us where in the heap snapshot you were finding the m3u8s? Would make it easier for us to track it down and make sure we're on the same page.

[gkatsev]

I looked at it a bit yesterday and I have one simple fix (videojs/http-streaming#487), there's definitely a lot more we need to do.

[0caspy]

Hey, can you show us where in the heap snapshot you were finding the m3u8s? Would make it easier for us to track it down and make sure we're on the same page.

please, take a look on two screenshots.

[gkatsev]

Thanks! We're definitely going to schedule time to investigate the memory leaks.

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[zsilbi]

The source of this leak is in the m3u8 parser: videojs/m3u8-parser#164