Is a writable disk necessary for VLC to play (embedded app)

[jclark]

Basically is there any requirement for using a writable disk, temporary files, etc which would prevent use in a totally 'rom' based application.

Thanks.
John Clark.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

No. You will however an error message in the log when VLC tries to autosave the configuration at exit.

And of course some specific stuff won't work, such as the file output, and the timeshift, record and dump filters.

[jclark]

No. You will however an error message in the log when VLC tries to autosave the configuration at exit.

And of course some specific stuff won't work, such as the file output, and the timeshift, record and dump filters.

I believe my needs are 1) play locally stored 'canned' media, or stream from an external source.

Any 'config' would be preset. It does seem that I may need to have a ram disk to hold a certain amount of 'log' information.

Thanks,
John Clark.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC does not write logs to disk by default.

One problem is that it will take ages to regenerate the plugins cache at every startup. Since it cannot write the cache to permanent storage, it will have to load every shared object for each and every session. You'd better limit these to the bare minimum, as there are over 200 by default.