vlc memory marches up until it is killed, or kills the machine, when it is paused while playing a stream from another computer, and that stream is stopped.
I am attaching some pictures to show what I'm describing. First the config...
Machine receiving stream (my laptop)
- Ubuntu Linux, vlc 0.8.6e, ip 192.168.1.102.
Machine broadcasting stream (other machine)
- Windows XP, SP2, vlc 0.8.6i, ip 192.168.1.101, web ui on port 83, broadcasting video on port 1234 on http.
Without timeshift turned on I have been using this several times a day for several weeks without any problems. I turned on timeshift a couple of days ago.
''' Before.png''' - shows my laptop in it's usual state. Virtually no swap in use, 30% of the main memory in use. It is the latest of Ubuntu, skype, kopete, ktorrent, and other bits and pieces running, but nothing that should be relevant, except that Firefox is running with among other things the web interface to the vlc running on another machine in my house and broadcasting a stream.
''' During.png''' - shows my laptop running vlc and playing the broadcast stream. Shows the preferences open to show the timeshift config. (This config is in use, I am not changing the config at this point, I cancel to close it). The screen capture doesn't show the video, but it is there and working fine. It can be paused and played, all is good. Memory is fine.
After.png - shows what has happened to the memory after I stop the broadcast stream (through the web ui). The memory marches up rapidly. During this time the laptop is almost unresponsive, and the gap between the time of the network traffic dropping off / the memory usage rapidly heading up, and time of the memory dropping back off again, is the time it look for the konsole window to catch up with me typing the ps | grep and the kill, to kill vlc.
After_Pause_Then_Stop.png - shows a second scenario - I pause the broadcast stream and you can see the network traffic drop off, things are fine. Then about eight or nine seconds later I stop the stream, at which point you can see the memory usage go up, and a spike in the cpu utilization. About 23 seconds later I manage to kill vlc and the memory drops back.
If left vlc will use up all the physical memory and swap, and Linux dies.
Let me know what else you need. I am loving vlc and am happy to help.
Nev