About OOM, yes, I tested it on a rather old machine (Pentium4, 2.5 GB RAM, 2.5GB swap), it doesn't take long to become full :)
hadrons12345, you are right about the mute, I forgot to mention it, it's indeed a pity. I'm not sure if it happens every time, though. But at least it's less damaging and annoying than the memory leak. I have vlc running for hours (playing streaming music over the internet) and at least there is no leak or harm :) Perhaps then pulseaudio is messing around in general. Perhaps killing it or uninstalling it will make things better. Perhaps it takes over control when vlc pauses and doesn't release the stream back, hm. All these need experimenting, but of course they are not proper fixes. The proper fix should come from an upstream patch OR by backporting the 1.2.x patch, but it seems there are no developers around. That's a pity because vlc (with defaults) and pulseaudio cooperated much better in 10.10... -- 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
