[X4U] Most advanced Video Codec WMV?

[Nick Scalise]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 1/17/07 5:43 PM, Neil_ Pollack <lists at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, January 17, 2007, at 08:03PM, "Eddie Hargreaves"
>> <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I just watched a 480x204 resolution movie trailer from Apple's  
>>> web site and
>>> it didn't use more than 39% of the processor in my G4 iBook....
>>
>> That surprises me.  I drop frames on my G5/2x2 when I watch video  
>> encoded in
>> h.264.  This happens a lot with HD (720p and better) but it even  
>> happens some
>> with lower resolution content.  MPEG2 plays much more smoothly.   
>> 1080p content
>> encoded in h.264 is totally unplayable on my system.  It takes at  
>> least a
>> minute or two to change each frame.
>
> I'm not talking about HD content at all, so just forget that. Go to
> http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and watch any non-HD trailer. Does  
> your dual
> G5 drop frames? If so, tell me which trailer. I just tested on this  
> one:
> <http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/trailer2/>

I have a G5/2x2 also, the turtles trailer played just fine for me.

I opened the 1080p trailer and it played just fine too.

There must be some issue with Neil's G5.
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Nick Scalise
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