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    which one takes up less...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by *Daystar*, Aug 20, 2007.

  1. *Daystar*

    *Daystar* Seahawk Fan!

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    which media player takes up the least RAM?
     
    *Daystar*, Aug 20, 2007
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Good question! I have no idea, I think not easy to tell.
    Funny question. what weighs more, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
     
    powerpack, Aug 20, 2007
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    burkle25 Are you a color?

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    they are both a ton
     
    burkle25, Aug 20, 2007
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    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    ill test it now results in 10 min :)

    Players that i will use

    Windows media
    Real player
    Winamp
    VLC
     
    wolfraider, Aug 20, 2007
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    ??? maybe a ton of bricks??? just kidding... I know they are the same, I don't have ram issues so I would not know.
     
    yuio, Aug 20, 2007
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Correct, very good. I am waiting for the answer for media players. But how with Vista can you tell because it dynamicaly adjusts your RAM as it sees fit?
     
    powerpack, Aug 20, 2007
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    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    In terms of overhead VLC or Media Player Classic are pretty light weight. They consume like 1 meg when not playing anything. When playing something it's up to the CODEC and the media.
     
    tebore, Aug 20, 2007
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    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    I used the most popular players IN DEFAULT MODE!!! and here are the results
    VERY interesting results i was surprised!!!!

    RANK
    1Windows media player
    2Winamp
    3Real PLayer
    4 VLC media player(uses its own codecs)

    no activity= VLC wins
    http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/9523/wheneverythingisoffkv5.jpg

    mp3=WMP wins

    http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1006/playingmusicbb7.jpg

    DivX/video=WMP wins
    http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2126/playingmoviekd3.jpg

    clearly WMP is a winner this may be du to its a microsoft software and optimized for running on windows

    My favourite player the Winamp is right after the Windows MP and it didnt came as a shock

    Real Player seemed to suck ressources at start up but when running it showed a decent ressource consumption

    VLC showed promise when it was turned on with only 8MB of ram but when using the player it would use at least twice amount of ram as Windows MP
     
    wolfraider, Aug 20, 2007
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    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    There's a reason why IE7 or WMP wins against FF or VLC or MPC. They hide and spread the RAM usage in SVCHOST threads and Explorer.

    WMP11 and IE7 aren't really that bad. I noticed that WMP11 is pretty fast as well as IE7 but MPC loads so much faster and FF just works well.
     
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    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    you are right it sound too good to be true it must be it because it is impossible to run 1069kbps fluently on only 10 mb ram
     
    wolfraider, Aug 20, 2007
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