VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

[dompdv]

Issue: when looping on a simple JPG file the memory consumption starts to increase after a minute till the Mac is frozen (have to "force to quit" VLC to recover eventually). Seems to be a typical memory leak

Computer: MacBook Air 15', silicon M2
OS: Sonoma 14.0
VLC version: 3.0.20
Config: default

[fkuehne]

How big is that JPEG pixel-wise?

[dompdv]

Standard 1920x1080.

I guess it’s not related to its size. The memory increases steadily until the computer freezes

[fkuehne]

Fun. We will take a look. Thanks!

[MklFlnsbrg]

Hi!
I have the same issue. I use VLC to present Jpeg on a screen, and after a certain amount of time the computer crashes because of no application memory left.
The last time it crashed it showed that VLC was using 44,22 GB of memory, simply showing 7 jpegs in a loop. :/
Computer: M1 MacMini running 13.6.6
VLC version: 3.0.20