As far as I know, unless you set the "aout" vlcrc parameter expliticitly to "alsa,none", VLC will fall back to whatever it can if/when ALSA refuses to work. And whatever it can means PulseAudio on Ubuntu, if the selected ALSA output device is busy (or non-existent).
I have never heard of the memory leak occurring with the decade-old VLC ALSA output. You can check which audio output plugin is really used from Tools -> Messages -> Modules tree -- 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vlc/+bug/743323/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
