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Hard disk access during video playback?

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Vadatajs

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First I have a question: does the hard drive on a laptop use more power than ram? If so then that's what I've been thinking. If not then let me know, and disregard the following.


Why the hell doesn't anything I have load the entire video into ram instead of reading it from the disk constantly during playback. If I had a program that would, I think my laptop battery would last longer on the airplane. It lasted 3 out of 8.5 hours, which is pathetic.

Is there a video player specifically for laptops that when there is enough free memory, will use all of it to cache the video so that the hard drive can shut off during playback? (this doesn't have to be for windows btw).
 
People typically try and write software that uses the least amount of RAM, not the most. If you load up a 700mb divx movie do you really want it to take up 700mb of physical memory? How useful would that video player be on a machine with 128mb or ram?
 
I don't know of a media player that allows for loading media files into ram. However, you could just create a ramdisk and load the media files into it yourself.

Impressive if you have 1GB of ram on your laptop. 🙂
 
If videos are loaded into ram, then your harddrive would be heavily used for a few minutes as it loads an entire movie into RAM.

Besides, 3 hours on a laptop is pretty good unless you have a Centrino.
 
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