Flash Player - memory leak

I have created a AS2 script that plays 6 FLV movies one right
after the other... and never stop..
After about 10-15 minutes of looping the videos appear to
start playing choppy.
all flv movies reside on the local machine
Would this not happen if i rewrite the script in AS 3?
is there a way to refresh only the flashplayer and not the
entire IE7 page?
is there a known memory leak in using the flashplayer?

It is hard to say what is causing it. Can you post the code?
My first guess is that you might be creating a new instance of a
video clip everytime one is called up. This would sort of stack
your videos into memory and never really delete from memory, the
previous video clip. So while you see only one video at a time,
Flash sees it as you are just putting one video on top of the
other. Once the RAM starts filling up...the program grinds to a
halt.

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Summary
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If it's our bug, it should be straightforward to fix, and I can follow up to this thread with a beta build for you guys to evaluate once we have one available. In the meantime, it would be interesting to know if you're seeing the problem on our current Beta builds (which is where we would do the work).
Here's a link to the latest Beta download:
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There is a memory leak in Flash Player that leads to Flash crashing, predictably and repeatedly, when used.
My question:
When will this problem be fixed?
Evidence:
Observe the progression in the following single-take video of me playing my favorite Flash game, posted to Youtube. Skip to the times indicated in the "About" description for the video to observe the increase in use of physical memory, as observed in Windows Task Manager, until there isn't anything left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIJvTuUitU
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My hypothesis:
There is a memory leak in Flash Player that leads to Flash crashing, predictably and repeatedly, when used.
My question:
When will this problem be fixed?
Evidence:
Observe the progression in the following single-take video of me playing my favorite Flash game, posted to Youtube. Skip to the times indicated in the "About" description for the video to observe the increase in use of physical memory, as observed in Windows Task Manager, until there isn't anything left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIJvTuUitU
My computer gets bogged down, the game stalls out, and Flash needs to be closed to enable my computer to function once more. It makes it impossible to play this specific game for very long, and is an insidious problem lurking in the background every time I watch a video, play a game, or use Flash Player for any purpose. My computer always slows down, with the problem worsening as time passes until I need to close everything and start again.
Details:
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Conclusion:
If you need further information about my specific computer, please feel free to ask.
If this problem is specific to my computer, I would appreciate knowing this and determining a way to solve the problem. My suspicion is that the problem originates in Flash Player itself and is experienced by many people in a variety of circumstances. It is my hope that an articulate response indicating how long it will take to correct this bug in Flash Player can be provided.
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[email protected]

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