Will more RAM help MKV's load faster?

[Ben1l]

I have a mac mini (2ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) with 1gb of RAM that I use as a media centre. I pretty much only use Front Row on it. Most of the time I watch HD MKV files, but am sick of waiting for them to load in Front Row (the blue progress bar). I just wanted to know if upgrading the RAM on it would help speed up this loading/buffering?

Many thanks!

 

[Hellhammer]

It's loaded from the HD thus RAM wouldn't help much. You could upgrade the HD to faster, 7200rpm drive to speed it up.

Or try another app. I have the same issue with Quicktime, I can't jump to one point before it has loaded but I have no such issue with VLC

 

[spinnerlys]

Also take a look at Movist, as it has some kind of Front Row equivalent, started via pressing the "N" key or sometimes you have to use "Cmd+N".

 

[Aegelward]

I've found a huge improvement with the loading time of MKV files with the XBMC Dharma Beta

What took a minute or two previously loads in seconds.

Not to mention native GPU acceleration

 

[Transporteur]

One to rule them all. Plex.

 

[JayX]

Agree with the two previous, there's far better 3rd party HTPC solutions on OSX than the built in Front Row. I didn't even know FR supported MKV!

 

[Madd the Sane]

If you use Perian, you can make QuickTime (and by extension, Front Row) play MKV files. However, as far as MKV loading times, this is partly a limitation of QuickTime 7 and partly a limitation of Perian.