Why do I catch the "AccessViolationException" exception in av_hwframe_transfer_data () when I run it as a windows service?

Question

I write Windows service witch decodig video stream from camera. I write it on c# with FFMPEG.Autogen wrapper.

My problem is "AccessViolationException" when i run it as service. If i run application as Console Application i have no exceptions.

In Stacktrace i see this:

в FFmpeg.AutoGen.ffmpeg+<>c.<.cctor>b__5_572(FFmpeg.AutoGen.AVFrame*, FFmpeg.AutoGen.AVFrame*, Int32)
в FFmpeg.AutoGen.ffmpeg.av_hwframe_transfer_data(FFmpeg.AutoGen.AVFrame*, FFmpeg.AutoGen.AVFrame*,Int32)
в VideoProviderService.VideoSources.RTSPVideoSource.TryDecodeNextFrame(Boolean ByRef)

Code of TryDecodeNextFrame method:

public IntPtr TryDecodeNextFrame(out bool state)
{
    try
    {
        ffmpeg.av_frame_unref(pFrame);
        ffmpeg.av_frame_unref(cpuFrame);
        int error;
        do
        {
            try
            {
                do
                {
                    timeout = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(2);
                    error = ffmpeg.av_read_frame(_pFormatContext, pPacket);
                    if (error == ffmpeg.AVERROR_EOF)
                    {
                        state = false;
                        return IntPtr.Zero;
                    }
                    error.ThrowExceptionIfError();
                } while (pPacket->stream_index != _streamIndex);
                ffmpeg.avcodec_send_packet(pCodecContext, pPacket).ThrowExceptionIfError();
            }
            finally
            {
                ffmpeg.av_packet_unref(pPacket);
            }
            error = ffmpeg.avcodec_receive_frame(pCodecContext, pFrame);
        } while (error == ffmpeg.AVERROR(ffmpeg.EAGAIN));
        error.ThrowExceptionIfError();
        ffmpeg.av_hwframe_transfer_data(cpuFrame, pFrame, 0).ThrowExceptionIfError();
        ptrToFrame = (IntPtr)vfc.Convert(*cpuFrame).data[0];  
    }
    catch
    {
        state = false;
        return IntPtr.Zero;
    }
    state = true;
    return ptrToFrame;
}

What i tried to do:

1. I checked arguments of av_hwframe_transfer_data.
2. I changed the user for the service.
3. I tried compile as x86 or x64 configuration.

I have no idea how to solve this. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Answer 1

It seems that you are not handling properly your frames (pFrame/cpuFrame). Especially, for the cpuFrame you should alloc it in every run and free it at the end of every run. Additionally for the pFrame you should unref it directly after av_hw_frame_transfer_data. Eg:-

cpuFrame = ffmpeg.av_frame_alloc();

....

ffmpeg.av_hwframe_transfer_data(cpuFrame, pFrame, 0).ThrowExceptionIfError();

ffmpeg.av_frame_unref(pFrame);

.... Process your cpuFrame ...

ffmpeg.av_frame_free(&cpuFrame);

....