My bad, it seems recent versions of VLC don't have the inactive RAM problem. In any case, I think I'll look into the dev side of things a little more this weekend to see if there's anything obvious that could point me in the right direction. Josh On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote: > That is not the case. Most applications don't do this, and among video > players, while MPlayer and VLC both display the problem, Quicktime > with the Perian plugin does not, despite using the same codecs as the > first two to play most videos. > > Josh > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes. Inactive RAM steadily builds as the file plays (as verified with >>> Activity monitor). I've now verified another feature of the inactive >>> RAM building, though: it actually stops building so long as I pause a >>> video file. As soon as I unpause, it starts building up the inactive >>> RAM again though. >> >> The same "symptom" appears with every app that I run here. Look at >> Activity Monintor when you build smth, and you'll see that it follows >> the same pattern. >> >> >> Guillaume >> -- >> One should not give up hope on imbeciles. With a little training, you >> can make them into soldiers. >> -- Pierre Desproges >> _______________________________________________ >> MPlayer-users mailing list >> MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu >> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >> >
