i stream 800k baseball games from mlb.com on an hp media laptop with a 3 gig cpu, 1 gig of ram. 128 video. the stream is always perfect. just like tv.
i 's-video' the stream into to my big screen lcd.
and i have a 900 mhz amd with 256 ram, 32 meg video, and it streams a/v just as good.