[streaming] Re: Streaming performance

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Anders Bøje Larsen wrote:

>
>
>OK, but my system has 512 Megs of RAM, and there is only allocated 240 megs
>while streaming.
>The sund from the HD indicates that a LOT of small data chunks is
>written/read while streaming.
>Any ideas?
>
>  
>
Yeah defragment the drive! It really helps when your video stream is 
contiguous on the disk.

For a small number of streams however it does not matter much, but for a 
larger number of streams (>5) it certainly will make a difference.

I must warn you there are more knobs to tweak on your system for getting 
the best streaming performance, but this is outside the VLS/VLC scope.

Grtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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