Bug#820822: vlc consumes all RAM within seconds and system swaps and freezes

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

On 12/04/16 22:59, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On 2016-04-12 22:36:30, Giorgos Pallas wrote:

Package: src:vlc
Version: 2.2.2-5+b2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Whatever video I will try to play, vlc consumes within seconds all 4GB of RAM 
and makes the system swap
and eventually freeze, requiring a reboot. This started after upgrading to 
debian testing
(vlc 2.2.2-5), and continues even after I upgraded vlc to unstable (vlc 
2.2.2-5+b2).

Below is vlc -vvv log:

  $ vlc -vvv dvgrab-078.dv

Does it happen only with this file or any file?

As I wrote above, it happens with all video files of various types and codecs.

[00007feca0001268] vdpau_display vout display debug: using back-end 
OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale backend for VDPAU
[00007feca0001268] vdpau_display vout display debug: using RGBA format 2
[00007feca0001268] vdpau_display vout display debug: using X11 window 0x04800001

...

[00007feca4000958] core video output warning: picture is too late to be 
displayed (missing 79 ms)
[00007feca4000958] core video output warning: picture is too late to be 
displayed (missing 39 ms)
[00007feca4000958] core video output warning: picture is too late to be 
displayed (missing 95 ms)
[00007feca4000958] core video output warning: picture is too late to be 
displayed (missing 56 ms)

This reminds me of libvdpau-va-gl1 bugs. Is it any better if you remove
libvdpau-va-gl1?

Regards

You got it! After removing that package, vlc would not freeze anymore.

Regards,
Giorgos Pallas

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