[G4] Quicktime MP4 problems!

[Harry Freeman]

On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:03 PM, 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.
>
> -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.
>
> You might want to try playing the file with VLC, too, and see if that 
> performs any better than Quicktime.
>
> -- 
> Rich
> _______________________________________________

Greetings ( + )!( + )

Open the "Activity Monitor" it's located in your  
Applications/Utilities folder. When it opens select the "CPU" tab and 
from the drop-down select "All Processes"

You will then be able to see which processes are using what percentage 
of the processors time.


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Harry (*^_^*)
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