playing video in vlc crashes system

[Gabriel Diosan]

Binary package hint: vlc

When playing certain video files (ususally .mkv) in VLC the system crashes. This usually happens a few minutes after vlc starts playing the video. First VLC loses audio and shortly thereafter the system becomes very sluggish and almost completely unresponsive.

This is on Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64 running vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 29 15:49:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-08 (20 days ago)