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I'm just looking for clues on how to figure out the repro case. I don't suppose VLC has a verbose instrumentation commandline flag which would help determine the problem when it does happen. It follows no real pattern that I have seen, so it must be timing related or something non-deterministic.

Once more for good measure. Sigh.

And twice more tonight.

And it happened again. This is STUPID.

I have no idea how to generate a valgrind trace when vlc under valgrind is absolutely hopeless for actually watching a video.

It can not keep up with a simple standard-def video, much less a high def.

Is there some valgrind magic --run-with-acceptable-performance flag I don't know about?

This just happened again while watching an otherwise unremarkable 720p video. Totem plays this same file just fine. VLC gets so aggressive about memory that my machine swaps itself to death and I have to hard reset it. Yes that's a pathological case for Linux, but it's VLC that is running away. At t...

It wasn't set to the GTK style it was set to "desktop" which I assume becomes GTK under GNOME. Even after changing this to Cleanlooks, I still get memory runaways. Almost instantly my machine went from just fine, 35% memory usage to 96% memory usage and almost unresponsive. Killing VLC imm...

OK, then color me ignorant, how do I turn it off? I just use whatever came default.

I too have VLC running away with memory. After watching a movie, I saw VLC consuming 81% memory (on a 4G machine).

Come on. We're not all morons. Like the rest of this thread, I need a compressor/limiter. I don't always have a pristine listening environment (baby crying, on a plane, etc). I need the RMS power of the audio track boosted without blowing my headphones or speakers out or distorting all to hell on lo...

The nightly did not solve this. Suck. I had high hopes

OK, I apologize. No idea *why* that would work, but it seems to have worked.

This is a brand-new install. No preferences. No cache.

??

And why is that the suggested answer to every problem on this forum?

I fired up VLC on Windows XP. Loaded a .TS file with VC-1 video and AC3 audio.

VLC *think* it is playing, but there is neither video showing nor audio playing.

WTH??

Winamp and Windows Media Player seem to handle this file...

Clues?

No matter what files I feed VLC, it blows up. Some of these are files that play fine in Quicktime. VLC loads, shows a black screen, blips the audio, and then crashes.

help? share a clue?