VLC's memory consumption steadily increases after switching to next videos #63
Description
Hi!
If I enqueue the videos (*.webm, *.flv, *.mp4, etc.) in my collection and rapidly switch them which can be done by running vlc --intf qt --extraintf telnet --telnet-password foo foo.xspf and using this script with "PASSWORD=foo":
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);
use Net::Telnet;
my $t = Net::Telnet->new(Timeout => 10);
my $PASSWORD = $ENV{PASSWORD};
$t->open(Host => 'localhost', Port => 4212);
$t->waitfor('/Password:/');
$t->print("$PASSWORD\n");
while (1)
{
$t->cmd("next\n");
sleep(0.2);
}
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=cut
this is with the default vdpau interface of VLC, and while using Mageia Linux x86-64 v6. Anyway, after doing this the memory consumption of VLC rapidly climbs - even beyond 10% of my 8 GB of RAM (which is even more than Firefox takes). I tested this on JWM And on Plasma 5. It does not seem to happen with VLC's Xcb output.
Please look into fixing it and sorry to be the harbinger of bad news again.