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Hey guys,

My VLC Server is streaming a video at ~800kbps. I am playing it back on my client and notice that the memory usage of the client PC increases at about the same rate as the bitrate of the video. It seems as though its streaming the video to the system memory of the client pc and keeping it in memory. The video keps streaming until all of the system memory is used up and the client crashes.

IS there a place to set buffers etc?

Thanks,

Rahim

So I found that the memory usage seems to plateau at a certain value over time. When the stream first starts to play (on the client) it quickly consumes memory for a couple of minutes but then steadies off.

When I have a single stream playing on the client, total client memory usage plateaus at ~40 megs.

When I have four streams playing on the client, total client memory usage plateaus at ~90 megs.

Is this normal behaviour?