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    anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    as it says up there im getting annoyed by the constant little disk accesses when watching movies


    i looked in media players options but i cant find anyway to command it to store a piece of the file in memory and flush it out

    is this possible ?

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    Re: anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    Quote Originally Posted by weebroonieuk View Post
    as it says up there im getting annoyed by the constant little disk accesses when watching movies


    i looked in media players options but i cant find anyway to command it to store a piece of the file in memory and flush it out

    is this possible ?
    Why not create your own ram drive, copy it to there and watch it?
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    Re: anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    i was thinking that but its a long winded process for something that it sould do , would decrease reads alot and be more energy effiecient ....

    i will possibly go for a ram drive when i go for 8gb of ram in my latitude and go 64bit , although im sure it only has two dimm slots so thats gonna be a while before i can justify the price of those lol

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    Re: anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    Does the lattitude support 4gb SODIMMs?

    My Inspiron officially only supports a max of 2x1gb sticks

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    Re: anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    im sure it does , if i remember right it offered it in the configuration when i was ordering it , its the e6500 im using the newest of the latitudes so i daresay the will , shame most laptops only have 4 slots , 2gb dimms are cheap!

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    Re: anyway to buffer video files in ram in wmp?

    yeh 607 quid for 8gb of ddr3 sodimms i think al hold of on that one for a while!

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