VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

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VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

Postby dompdv » 09 Nov 2023 10:38

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

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Re: VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

Postby fkuehne » 06 Dec 2023 07:35

How big is that JPEG pixel-wise?
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Re: VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

Postby dompdv » 06 Dec 2023 08:50

Standard 1920x1080.

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

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Re: VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

Postby fkuehne » 06 Dec 2023 16:32

Fun. We will take a look. Thanks!
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Re: VLC eats up massive amount of memory when displaying a jpg

Postby MklFlnsbrg » 29 Apr 2024 10:37

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


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