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Hi guys dont know if this has been asked but whats this lil beauty like for streaming stuff online. I am a big watcher of tv shows and movies streamed online and was just wondering what its like.Many thanks in advance dudes……….
Oh and i upgraded to 2 gig memory aswell…………
For me the media streams just fine,although i havn’t done much more than youtube or gadget show website,as alot of tv channel streamers don’t allow irish IP’s to view them
well iplayer is fine, even in high quality mode is brilliant (with a decent broadband connection of course!)
The shows I want to see are on ABC.com. I’ve viewed a few on the NC10 and they work very well. However, in full-screen mode, there is some tearing in the middle of the screen during scenes where there’s a lot of camera motion or movement. It’s just a minor annoyance and doesn’t make it unwatchable. If you watch the show in a smaller window, there’s no tearing at all. The HD and SD versions seem to be the same. I suspect the feed automatically switches to SD even though I choose HD; because performance and the picture seem about equal. Considering the NC10 doesn’t have a dual core processor, I’m pleased with the results I get with streaming video.
As for local non-streaming video, I’ve seen the same tearing when watching video with iTunes and QuickTime. The decoding in VLC must be more efficient because everything I’ve viewed with VLC plays much better, with no tearing or flaws in the picture, even with WiFi sharing.
I can also second iPlayer as working very well! Here is a quick clip of it running from my NC10 streamed over WiFi onto a bigger TV with a VGA port.
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Yep bbc iplayer is good as in c4 ondemand and sky player.
Local streaming over wifi n network hd material streams and plays perfectly
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The shows I want to see are on ABC.com. I’ve viewed a few on the NC10 and they work very well. However, in full-screen mode, there is some tearing in the middle of the screen during scenes where there’s a lot of camera motion or movement. It’s just a minor annoyance and doesn’t make it unwatchable. If you watch the show in a smaller window, there’s no tearing at all. The HD and SD versions seem to be the same. I suspect the feed automatically switches to SD even though I choose HD; because performance and the picture seem about equal. Considering the NC10 doesn’t have a dual core processor, I’m pleased with the results I get with streaming video.As for local non-streaming video, I’ve seen the same tearing when watching video with iTunes and QuickTime. The decoding in VLC must be more efficient because everything I’ve viewed with VLC plays much better, with no tearing or flaws in the picture, even with WiFi sharing.
[/quote1227934115]I watched half a season of Lost over the weekend on my NC10 connected to my external monitor at 1680×1050. You are quite correct that SD viewing from ABC in a window is almost perfect (this over a 512K connection) but if you switch to full-screen you definitely need a dual-core CPU. I tracked my CPU usage throughout my viewing session and it was NEVER under 90% while not in full-screen mode so I was able to determine that it was the CPU that was the bottleneck with the ABC player. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t watch videos in all their glory, on the contrary, I watched a full screen AVI movie and it played just fine, but the ABC full-screen viewer is exceptional in its quality and as such takes up a lot of CPU resources. To me the jitters were watchabel but I got tired of them and switched to the window instead.
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