Gemini Tablet Pausing While Streaming

[Johnny Doe]

As per title. Steaming stuff from the internet, which works perfectly on smart TVs and my phone, but keeps freezing on cheapie tablet. Is it just too weak?

 

[yield]

As per title. Steaming stuff from the internet, which works perfectly on smart TVs and my phone, but keeps freezing on cheapie tablet. Is it just too weak?

Never heard of the make before? With a large HD screen and little RAM it'd struggle.

 

[mauvais]

If all your stuff is on 5Ghz Wi-Fi and this is stuck on 2.4 then it's an unfair comparison and it's more likely to crap out.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Never heard of the make before? With a large HD screen and little RAM it'd struggle.

It's a £100 (or so, can't remember) one from Asda. I bought it for my Dad when he was in hospital for months with no TV but he gave it back and never used it.

 

[Johnny Doe]

It's this:

 

[yield]

Okay for a bit browsing or some old games but little else.

 

[mauvais]

Not enough RAM, no 802.11ac and an unknown CPU make it unlikely it's going to do streaming well, particularly actual HD.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Not enough RAM, no 802.11ac and an unknown CPU make it unlikely it's going to do streaming well, particularly actual HD.

Now streaming the Arsenal game, no problem. Do you need less RAM for Europa League?

 

[mauvais]

No streaming the Arsenal game, no problem. Do you need less RAM for Europa League?

Streaming it from what?

It does matter what the resolution and codec of the content is.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Streaming it from what?

It does matter what the resolution and codec of the content is.

Same footy site I always use

 

[souljacker]

I'm going to guess its that 1Gb of RAM that is the problem. Can it do iPlayer? It's quite good at caching so is a bit more resilient to poor network connections but it needs somewhere to cache to and 1Gb of RAM probably won't be enough.

 

[mauvais]

Same footy site I always use

You could probably work out whether the different streams are different formats, somehow, but it would be quite involved.

I don't know anything about these kind of sport streaming sites, but if the source content they're ripping off is different and they don't do much to repackage it, it might well vary between competitions.

 

[Johnny Doe]

I'm going to guess its that 1Gb of RAM that is the problem. Can it do iPlayer? It's quite good at caching so is a bit more resilient to poor network connections but it needs somewhere to cache to and 1Gb of RAM probably won't be enough.

My latest post is that I'm streaming the current Arsenal game with no issues though. I realise my next question shows my ignorance - would how many others are watching the stream have any effect?

 

[Saul Goodman]

My latest post is that I'm streaming the current Arsenal game with no issues though. I realise my next question shows my ignorance - would how many others are watching the stream have any effect?

That's almost always the problem on dodgy streaming sites.