AVCaptureSession get Memory warning and crash with no reason

Question

I am working on an app that manipulates HD photos. I am taking a photo with an AVCaptureSession, stopping it and then apply effects on that photo.

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Answer 1

I've had the same frustrations. I was using ARC in a project where I was presenting a camera using AV Foundation. After presenting and popping the view controller a few times, my app would receive a low memory warning, and subsequently crash. Instruments didn't help much either. I discovered the solution by experimenting:

Even though you are using ARC in your camera class, you can implement the dealloc method (just don't call super on dealloc).

- (void)dealloc {
    AVCaptureInput* input = [session.inputs objectAtIndex:0];
    [session removeInput:input];
    AVCaptureVideoDataOutput* output = [session.outputs objectAtIndex:0];
    [session removeOutput:output];  
    [session stopRunning];
}

This takes care of stopping the AVCaptureSession and ensuring it has no inputs or outputs still alive.