VLC possibly has memory leak

[nestharus]

I was watching a show on VLC (720p 8 bit 20 mins) and suddenly I got a blue screen and watched it dump the memory. My computer has 16 gigs of quad channel memory, 10 terabytes of hard drive space, and the only thing it was running since it had turned on was VLC. The video was also only ~175 megs and I only played 2 of them since I had turned on the computer.

Also, since using VLC, my computer has started to get choppy. My laptop will also randomly freeze when running VLC (so this happens across 2 computers). It is the first time that my desktop has crashed.

My desktop starts up in 6 seconds and shuts down in 1.5 seconds, so it's extremely fast. The OS is also on a SSD.

All of the freezing points to VLC, and the blue screen memory dump also points to VLC.


Please investigate, thank you ;D.


My laptop typically runs internet radios whereas my desktop runs HD anime (normally decoding 10 bit HD mkv files that can be 2.5 gigs for 20 minutes of content). The freeze occurred with an 8 bit ~175 meg file as stated before. Furthermore, as stated before, since using VLC, my desktop performance has drastically slowed (it now takes a few seconds to load up on desktop whereas it was instant before). All of the media is being stored on an external hard drive, so it's not a fragmentation issue. Furthermore, the OS is on a SSD, so it definitely isn't a fragmentation issue :\.

Anyways, tx for taking the time to read this.

edit
I'm using latest VLC as well

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This looks like a broken video driver.

[nestharus]

The video driver on the desktop is the very latest. It has an auto update and it updates like once a month >.<.

The laptop, I don't know.

Both have different video drivers.

So are you saying that both video drivers are broken, one from nvidia and one from radeon?

[nestharus]

Ok, I fixed the problem ;o.

My desktop's RAM was installed incorrectly, so VLC would attempt to allocate some memory and read bad RAM.


Anyways, tx for your time =).