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a few things (long winded) Posted by KenManiac [Email]  (#392) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from KenManiac) on Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:11:25
In Reply to: OT: Need Quicktime/VLC help...choppy on ibook G3, George, Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:21:56 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I watch movies, mostly DVDs, on a 400MHz G4 desktop machine, and rarely have problems with the recent DVD Player app.
Lots of AVIs fail even on my 1.67GHz PowerBook with a gig of RAM. QuickTime is infinitely better than that load of turds called Windows Media Player. VLC is good too. Try MPlayer. QuickTime needs the latest codecs to open lots of files.
Turn on Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities) and see if the processor is maxing out. I leave the floating CPU window on all the time. If it's showing all green while you're playing a movie, that's the problem.
Is your hard drive nearly full? Are you playing them from CD or DVD discs? Copying them to the HD will help. Having 20% free space on the drive lets the VM breathe.
It also depends on the encoding. Are you ripping DVDs to AVI or are you 'finding' them 'somewhere'?
I restart every month or two whether it needs it or not, but I do try to log out every week or 2. It helps.
500MHz is getting pretty old. That machine has 8 or 16 MB of VRAM, iirc. It might be time for some newer hardware. If you are going to upgrade, at least wait until after this Tuesday. Expect some announcement at Macworld.
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