On 5/26/23 05:39, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 04:14 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
When I am streaming a web radio station with SMPlayer,
does the data go to ram or hard drive?
While it's mostly taken as read that buffering will use RAM, it's not
that clear about caching, but I found this (below) after doing a google
search for: smplayer cache in ram or disc
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Where does mplayer store cache?
It's cached into RAM.
Fairly easy to test if you just use an absurdly high cache number. As
long as you have enough RAM, you'll see an mplayer instance with super
high RAM usage."
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Though I wouldn't be surprised at a small temp file appearing somewhere
if you'd clicked on M3U playlist, for instance (the temp file being the
address of the actual streaming data).
I think that, in most cases, to listen to a live stream you're only
buffering a few seconds worth. Unless you're using a player which
deliberately buffers a large amount so that you can rewind and repeat
something.
Ram is perfect! I did not what dump to have to deal
with a lot of files constantly changing under its nose.
Thank you!
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