[G4] Quicktime MP4 problems!

[Thomas J. Fobia]

Richard, Im not getting much information out of those Log files. Maybe 
the other information you mentioned that I have inserted below will give 
you a clue as to what might be going on with this machine. Thanks for 
you suggestions!
Tom

Richard Klein wrote:

> Thomas J. Fobia wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>    I have a downloaded a drawing lesson that is a video MP4 file. I 
>> have a desktop Mac G4 where it doesnt play without jerks and sound 
>> dropouts. I burned the file to a CD and took to my laptop where it 
>> (the mp4 file) plays without any problems. The difference between the 
>> two computer are as follows: (Both using Quicktime 7.1.3)
>>
>> My Desktop G4:
>> Mac OSX 10.4.8; 1.6 Ghz PowerPC G4 (Upgraded Powerlogix processor)
>> Memory: 1.12GB SDRAM
>>
>> ATI Radeon 8500:
>
>
> All those specs should be good enough to play just about any video 
> short of 720- or 1080-line HDTV.  I suspect there's something running 
> in the background that's keeping your Mac busy.  I don't have a 
> solution but here's a couple things you could try:
> -Click on the Apple icon and select Force Quit...
>  Let us know what programs it lists; maybe we can pinpoint one of them 
> as a resource hog. 

I did a shutdown, then a restart. Quicktime and still a jerky playback. 
Force quit only listed quicktime and the finder.

>
>
> -Click on the Apple icon and select About This Mac, then click on More 
> Info...
>  That puts you in the System Profiler program.  In the last section, 
> Software, look at the Logs.  console.log, error_log, and system.log 
> are probably the most interesting.  Look for any log entries from 
> about the same time as when you were playing the MP4 file.
>
> -Finally, while you're still in System Profiler, look in the last 
> section: Startup Items.  Let us know what's listed there.  


> Heres the list:

Apache:;
AppleShare:;AppServices:;AuthServer:;CrashReporter:;Disks:;FibreChannel:;
IFCStart:;IPServices:;Macaroni:;Metadata:;NetworkTime:;NFS:;NIS:;
PowerLogix Startup:;PrintingServices:;RemoteDesktopAgent:;SNMP:;Tablet:

>
> You might want to try playing the file with VLC, too, and see if that 
> performs any better than Quicktime.
> VLC was even worse than quiktime!


Back to you Rich!
Tom