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I'm currently writing a small watchdog application that will monitor vlc and restart it if needed. This is not really a solution at all just a stupid workaround that is far from optimal, and there is also the risk that the watchdog program will fail due to vlc eating up all available memory. And it ...

I'm having the same problem while streaming some DVB channels. My machine has 386Mb of RAM and 750Mb of swap. I can usually stream channels from one DVB-T card for several weeks. If stream from 2 cards at the same time (with 2 instances of VLC of course) I run out of memory after only 3 or 4 days. I...

I'm currently trying to use VLC 0.8.4 (and the nigtly builds) to watch encrypted channels from my cable provider. Unencrypted channels work fin but I'm having problem with the encrypted channels. I'm currently using 2 different dudget DVB-C cards with CI interfaces. One card is the KNC1 DVB-C with t...