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 ----------------- begin paste --------------------- 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." ----------------- end paste --------------------- 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. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.90.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 4 15:21:22 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
