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Really? That's great. What is the feature called, and where can I read about how it works?

The video player would of course have to make sure that the OS doesn't swap the memory back to the hard drive, since that would be counter productive.

Whenever I watch a movie on my computer, usually that is the single task I'm using that computer for. This means that I have some 300 Mb of unused RAM sitting in the computer, and I was wondering if vlc could somehow use that memory as a buffer for the video file being read, to minimize hard drive a...