Failed to allocate heap about amazon-kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-cpp

[MushMal]

@dpmcgarry, the sample application tries to allocate 512MB of storage which apparently is not available on your system. The code throws an exception which is not caught as it's a sample app and we haven't yet hardened it for these types of failures. Generally, in a real-life application, one would try to determine how much storage would be needed and will handle the failures gracefully.

In this case I would recommend changing the allocation from 512MB to a much smaller (single stream PI with limited bandwidth and good networking would require far less storage).

instead of
device_info.storageInfo.storageSize = 512 * 1024 * 1024;

please specify
device_info.storageInfo.storageSize = 128 * 1024 * 1024;

We will, however, take a note and update the sample application to have more dynamic allocation.
We will also document the best practice on determining how much storage one would need and how to configure the StreamDefinition better for your needs.

[dpmcgarry]

Hmmm that doesn't make sense...I have 24G free for my root partition:
pi@pi-dev:~/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-cpp/kinesis-video-native-build $ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 30G 4.3G 24G 16% /
devtmpfs 182M 0 182M 0% /dev
tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 186M 2.7M 183M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 41M 21M 21M 52% /boot
tmpfs 38M 0 38M 0% /run/user/1000

[MushMal]

The available storage is on eMMC - read file system. The current implementations of the heap are all RAM based. We will be adding a hybrid storage which would utilize the file-backed storage as a spill-over later.

This said, for your PI you will hardly need that large of the storage anyway.

[dpmcgarry]

Ok now i am getting an error stating unable to set the pipeline to the playing state:

getStreamingEndpointResultEvent(): Get streaming endpoint result event.DEBUG - streamingTokenHandler invoked
INFO - Refreshing credentials. Force refreshing: 1 Now time is: 28023 Expiration: 30422
INFO - New credentials expiration is 30423

getStreamingTokenResultEvent(): Get streaming token result event.DEBUG - Kinesis Video stream demo-stream is Ready.
DEBUG - Stream is ready
Unable to set the pipeline to the playing state.
INFO - Freeing Kinesis Video Stream demo-stream

freeKinesisVideoStream(): Freeing Kinesis Video stream.DEBUG - streamDataAvailableHandler invoked
DEBUG - streamClosedHandler invoked

[dpmcgarry]

Disregard. Was able to get it working by running modprobe

[ohlr]

I had the same issue on Raspberry Pi 3B
Changing from device_info.storageInfo.storageSize = 512 * 1024 * 1024; to
device_info.storageInfo.storageSize = 128 * 1024 * 1024 in
kinesis-video-gst-demo/kinesis_video_gstreamer_sample_app.cpp line 126 worked for me.