ATI 9000 Pro

In the past, I've used an ibook with a 32 MB radeon 7500 and a powerbook with a 32 MB nvidea 5200go to watch DVDs. Both handled movies flawlessly... I find it very unlikely that a 64 MB Radeon 9000 should have trouble with DVDs. Methinks there is something else wrong here.

What are the other specs on your G4?

QCassidy352 said:

In the past, I've used an ibook with a 32 MB radeon 7500 and a powerbook with a 32 MB nvidea 5200go to watch DVDs. Both handled movies flawlessly... I find it very unlikely that a 64 MB Radeon 9000 should have trouble with DVDs. Methinks there is something else wrong here.

What are the other specs on your G4?

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His profile has this:
1.25 GHz G4 MDD Tower
200gb HDD, 2gb DDR RAM, Panther 10.3.4

I don't think it is the video card, unless it is broken. Your card should be more than enough to handle a dvd. Does you computer ever crash? Maybe bad ram or something.

grapes911 said:

His profile has this:
1.25 GHz G4 MDD Tower
200gb HDD, 2gb DDR RAM, Panther 10.3.4

I don't think it is the video card, unless it is broken. Your card should be more than enough to handle a dvd. Does you computer ever crash? Maybe bad ram or something.

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ah, ok, overlooked that. Well, all things considered, there's nothing in your system, video card or otherwise, that should prevent a DVD from playing in melted-butter smoothness. I agree with grapes - we're looking at something broken or malfunctioning. Could be the optical drive, could be bad RAM, could be all sorts of things.

iGary said:

I looked through a few DVD's last night, and it only is really apparent in a concert DVD I watch a lot.

The others were fine.

Thanks!

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Its a problem with the interlace method used, if you open the DVD in VLC and I think turn interlacing off, it will go away.