memory

lee3276

I've downloaded a film from the internet, about 4 hours long and when I go to play it with realplayer a message comes up with Ran out of memory, other films work fine, I've 2 harddrives C & D. C has around 25gb and D about 120gb i'm stuck and not sure what to do.

Darksun

You could try increasing the size of your swapfile, or getting more ram.

jr666

or just buy the film legally

wolfman

I didn't see any mention to it being an illegal film.

What file type is it? If it's not a realplayer file type you could try another video player such as VideoLan.

If the film is a realplayer format, then maybe try Real Alternative. It's real player but without the bulk.

How large is the move file you've downloaded? And have you actually downloaded it or is it being streamed (since you mention Real Player).

Increasing the pagefile (as mentioned above) is one possible solution.

herbert_goon

This is often misleading. IMHO an experience this would point to a corrupted file or possibly a missing or corrupt codec. Get realplayer to update all codecs - maybe even reinstall. If that fails, try the download again.

If it really is memory you can tell by ctrl-alt-del, run the file and look at your memory usage.

HTH and Good Luck

lee3276

The size of the film is 1,516,084 KB its an avi format and legal download tried playing it in realplayer, media player, bs player all say the same ran out of memory,its a new computer so I know the memory is there, I must of changed some settings of something

Alfie_2-2

try http://www.videolan.org/ its an excellent player... regardless of any codecs you have installed it will play anything you throw at it... its one way of proving if the file is valid

lee3276

alfie your a star it works thank you