Need good streaming with little RAM.

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NautTboy · #1 Post by **NautTboy** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:50 pm

I had no reply with RAM mod question so I'll try this.

Is there anyway we could get our thinkpad(i1300, i1400) run video streaming smoothly with only 192Mb RAM?

Would Linux help because it use swap partition?

Kinda sux when you have "Wow! 750 Mhz!!!" but max is only 192 Mb. My other 300 Mhz run faster with more memory. It's starting to make me think CPU speed is not important.

aaa · #2 Post by **aaa** » Tue May 06, 2008 5:02 pm

Video streaming? Ram? I thought the main bottleneck was CPU, especially with Flash video (what kind of video is this btw?).

And Windows also has "swap", ie virtual memory.

Not that ram isn't important, it basically is what governs the snappiness of most tasks (not video though). And swap is not a suitable replacement for actual ram, the reason not having enough ram is slow is *because* of swap/virtual memory usage (which is extremely slow).

NautTboy · #3 Post by **NautTboy** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:55 am

well, with this 1161 750 mhz and 192 ram, youtube video really lag. I have 600X with 500 mhz but with 256 ram it runs smooth. So what is the problem?

I want to be able to watch streaming video such as mostly FLV and Windows media. Be great if it could play all like Rm and mov smoothly too.

raket · #4 Post by **raket** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:25 am

The specified issue is a flash issue and not a FLV-issue. youtube lags on all my old machines but runs fine if i download the .flv file and play it in mplayer. My Celeron 1.2ghz with 1mb gfx card + 512mb ram lags on youtube aswell.

I think there is alot of programs in linux around which lets you download flv files from youtube. (and even pipe the download into mplayer)

Hope you come up with a solution.

NautTboy · #5 Post by **NautTboy** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:30 am

Yes I agree. I know it's not the file. It's the streaming. I can play avi, mpg, flv smoothly within the folder. Like I said, it's the streaming that is lagging. How could I solve it other than getting a update pc?

raket · #6 Post by **raket** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:47 am

I have no idea to fix this so it's easy for an end-user, however it's really easy to get a youtube-downloader in linux and pipe the data to mplayer.

aaa · #7 Post by **aaa** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:19 am

So it seems to be a network problem, and not a ram problem ...? (If Windows media is lagging then it probably is a network problem. Video being played faster than it's being downloaded basically).

I'm pretty sure it has little to do with the ram. (you haven't mentioned which Windows you're using, either).

NautTboy · #8 Post by **NautTboy** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:30 pm

well right now I have XP SP1 the pc is with my friend so he could test it out with his connection because i dont have a wifi card, but he has a netgear which ask for a phrase not like the usual wep key. He installed sp2 to be able to use the phrase and the connection is lagging.

Since sp2 lagged with connection, i will borrow his pcmcia card and reinstall sp1 and connect to my network and see if there's a different between sp1 and sp2. I know the boot up has a major differences. sp1 tend to boot up and open up application faster with older pc with small amount of ram.

Need good streaming with little RAM.

Need good streaming with little RAM.

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