All VLC 1.1.x versions are affected by this bug (memory leak and audio stops) by default. In VLC 1.2.x development as of today, this problem is "fixed", but audio sync is quite poor. In versions 1.0.x and older, VLC will use ALSA by default; this might work if the PulseAudio ALSA plugin is installed and configured adequately, or it might not work (as you saw @Alex C). This option is also available in versions 1.1/1.2 from the preferences, just no default.
We have asked for help from the PulseAudio guys but did not get much (so far). This is surprising, given none of the professional PulseAudio guys care about VLC (and the main author is busy wiith systemd), and the hobbyist PA guys are busy. We have asked for help from Ubuntu and got nothing. This is also not surprising as the Debian/Ubuntu multimedia maintainers are busy hobbyists, and are not (a priori) audio/PulseAudio specialists. For the time being, and unfortunately also for the foreseeable future, I can only recommend using ALSA adn hope it works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743323 Title: vlc memory leak -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
