There are major changes to that module coming in 1.6, but I don't think any of your issues are covered in those.  You could test it out and if not, get some jiras filed with the issues.

That being said, 1 is likely a vlc not a FreeSWITCH bug, you should test under valgrind and possibly report this bug to vlc instead of us if they are leaking.

2. I think vlc already has this feature.


On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Aqs Younas <aqsyounas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

We are using mod_vlc for quite a long time for playing streams(urls) for our radio application, which have more than 250 concurrent listeners.

Currently we are facing multiple issues while playing non mp3 streams (aac, flv).

i) Freeswitch starts pooling ram untill our server is crashed due to ram starving or we manually restart our freeswitch to release ram.So, most of the time we manually restart freeswitch instances.
If we play only mp3 streams with mod_shout. Freeswitch ram pooling problem is resolved. But we want to play streams other than mp3, that's why we are using mod_vlc.

ii) AGC (Auto gain controller) some streams are higher in volume than others.There are more than 1000 stream, daily new streams are being added and old one deleted. So, we can't manually adjust their volumes by setting channel variables. 

iii) Couldn't play anything while mod_vlc is trying to buffer the stream. (Please wait while we are trying to connect your requested radio)

So, I am here to ask is there any chance of re writing this module. Or any modification in up coming freeswitch releases.


We are using FreeSWITCH Version 1.4.18~64bit ( 64bit) on Linux 66-226-75-55 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Your replies would be much appreciated.

Thanks.