From kde-core-devel  Fri Jun 01 19:21:45 2001
From: Navindra Umanee <navindra () cs ! mcgill ! ca>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:21:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: This Week's CVS issues :)
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George Staikos <staikos@kde.org> wrote:
> > maybe that can be used to be changed into a konqueror plugin ? aKtion is
> > loading the complete file into memory which makes every machine cough on
> > large video files. Any solution for KDE on video in sight ?
> 
>   That annoys me to no end.  I tried viewing a 600mb .avi with aktion once.  
> It even brought my 650mb ram machine to it's knees very quickly.  Video is 
> really in an unfortunate state in KDE. 

If I recall correctly, you can pass XAnim flags to aKtion.  The +f
option loads on demand, I believe.

-N.