Bug 691248

Summary: VLC saturates entire ram
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Germano Massullo <germano.massullo>
Component: distributionAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Germano Massullo 2011-03-27 21:11:35 UTC 
I was seeing a video in mkv format. Suddendly the audio disappeard, and after 2-3 seconds the system started to swap into hard disk. System was almost freezed.
I was able to open a tty and enter a top to see what was going on. Well, VLC saturated 15gb of ram!
In the past weeks I saw this video with VLC without problems, but I think the system auto updated VLC during these days and something in the new version went wrong.

I can reproduce the bug.
Is there any log I can submit?

Kernel 2.6.35.11-83 64bit
VLC version 1.1.8
Comment 1 Germano Massullo 2011-03-28 16:22:56 UTC 
It does it also with avi videos
Comment 2 Germano Massullo 2011-03-28 16:27:11 UTC 
I've just noticed that this package is from rpmfusion, so I think that I should submit this bugreport to the rpmfusion mantainer and/or VLC developers
Comment 3 Germano Massullo 2011-03-28 16:40:03 UTC 
On #videolan on Freenode IRC server a person told me that pulseaudio is the problem:
(<courmisch> Caterpillar: make sure you do NOT use PulseAudio)
(<Caterpillar> courmisch: I'm sure that my system uses it, how can I exclude it from VLC?)
(<courmisch> Caterpillar: you can't. You need to shut it down, or fix the VLC PulseAudio output source code )

I'm waiting for a feedback on what I can do to fix the problem :)
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2011-03-28 16:46:11 UTC 
VLC pulseaudio output source code would need to be fixed in VLC. Given that we don't ship VLC, there's very little we can do in Fedora to fix that. Probably best reported to the rpmfusion maintainer.