[X4U] Most advanced Video Codec WMV?

[John Baltutis]

On 01/17/07,  Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

Concur. Both played as advertised (even though it took awhile for the 1080p
version to load into the buffer) on my G4, 450 MP, 1.5 GB RAM machine running
10.4.8.