Problems with disk space

[Filewalker]

Hello!
First of all, I would like to express my satisfaction with your program. It's really great! I've been looking for something like this for long and now I can make the most of my local network.
However, I have e minor problem which seems to be really frustrating. Please, excuse me if my question seems inadequate, but I'm a novice in the filed of computers and I find some of the settings in VLC a bit confusing.
So, let me put it straight-whenever I watch a local stream, the amount of disk space decreases tremendously. I have found out that the program makes a temporary file in C directory, but I have to delete it manually every time. Can you tell me why this is so. I would be thankful if you give me advice on how to prevent the program from taking up free space.
Thanks in advance!

[funman]

please could you tell us the version of VLC you are using ?

Is it the last one ? (0.8.5)

[Filewalker]

Sorry for not mentioning it. Yes, it is the last one. I'm running Windows XP SP2.

[A.Smith]

I have exactly the same problem! VLC version is 0.8.5. I'm with Win XP SP2 on a Pentium M 2.0GHz, 1GB, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128MB ... PC. I don't think the problem is about the hardware though. Please reply ASAP. But running out of HDD space and restarting VLC every couple of minutes is kind of annoying. 10x a lot! Absolutely no problems with the program so far except this one! Keep up the good work

[VLC_help]

Can you tell the name and location of temp file?

[A.Smith]

It's located in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp (or the user's directory) and the name changes randomly, it has a "tmp" extension f.ex. IHA0CA.tmp, IHA0DB.tmp, IHA0DD.tmp, etc. The file keeps growing bigger as you watch the local video streams, it's three local TVs which my internet provider decided to stream locally!

10x for the quick reply. Hope the problem isn't essential and is easy to fix

[ales13]

Hello
I have the same problem, my disk space drops when I start streaming. Please tell me how to solve this problem. It drops from about 10GB disk space to 0GB in about 10minutes!
please help:)

[DJ]

I have been using VLC for several years now and even have used it in some rather unusual ways. I have never experienced this issue.

You will need to be much more specific in describing how you get it to do this. I this way someone else may be able to confirm or deny the problem.

[ales13]

I started streaming with webcam in first VLC, by opening file/open capture device, there I found my webcam and started to stream via Http...
then I started another VLC and did the folowing, file/open network stream and then enter the http://ipadress:port I get the picture in the second VLC, it is delayed for about 2 sec but that doesnt matter. In the moment that I get picture in the second VLC my disk space is lossing capacity... as I said for about 10GB I need about 10 min!!! But this stared when I launch the second VLC, if I only start the first one with streaming then this is not happening.

Please help if you know what can I do or if there is some option to disable this.

[DJ]

Generally this is only used for testing so that you know you can receive the stream. So really it shouldn't be a problem considering it has no practical application.

[ales13]

??

[filter69]

Any news on this?

VERY frustrating :/ I cant stream anything from my dreambox because this temp file will choke my windows c: drive.