http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...-out-of-memory in particolare questa risposta:

A true color image can use width x height x 4 x <fudge factor> bytes of memory. createimagefromjpg on a 5 mega pixel image and 20MB memory limit will immediately exhaust all memory. – Salman A Feb 26 at 12:17
non è che stiamo incappando in tale problema?