Fedora 14 + ATI Video Drivers + VLC

[suvayu ali]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Frank Tanner III
<pctech at mybellybutton.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any issues regarding VLC in Fedora 14 with ATI Video
> drivers?
>
> I'm running into a huge memory leak issue when I play a video in VLC.
> The video plays fine for about 30 or 45 seconds then memory utilization
> goes through the roof.  By through the roof, I mean it jumps to about
> 18GB of RAM before I can get the process killed.
>
> Other video utilities like Dragon Player and the others don't seem to
> have this issue.

I faced the same issue too. I use the radeon drivers with an ATI HD4870 card.

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Suvayu

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