Playing HD footage on a PowerBook G4

[lloydh]

I have some 720P HD footage that I need to playback on an old PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz, 2GB) but in its current encoding (H.264), the G4 just doesn't have the horsepower.

I am prepared to transcode the video on my MBP in the hope that a less-compressed format will play.

What formats would you suggest? Vanilla MPEG 1/2?


Thanks,



Lloyd

[huntercr]

Originally Posted by lloydh

I have some 720P HD footage that I need to playback on an old PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz, 2GB) but in its current encoding (H.264), the G4 just doesn't have the horsepower.

I am prepared to transcode the video on my MBP in the hope that a less-compressed format will play.

What formats would you suggest? Vanilla MPEG 1/2?


Thanks,



Lloyd

You could reencode it as Apple Intermediate Codec perhaps.

Consider buying the elgato H.264 USB device. It will probably make you happier in the long run.

[bigbossbmb]

That powerbook should be able to playback DVCProHD (from a FW drive). I'd go with that. After that, maybe JPEG2000.


PS: If you're trying to play it back from the internal, you can just about forget it.