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Can Anyones Mac Pro Play This Video Smoothly?

Plays fine for me also - PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Dual 2.5GB RAM, X800XT and 10.5.2 (QT 7.4.1).
 
netdog said:
Plays smoothly.

Early 2008 2.8 Octo
10.5.2
Graphics Update
ATI 2600 Xt
8GB RAM
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Okay, what's wrong with this picture? I'm running the same setup only with 6gigs of ram and it's choppy on mine.
When you say plays smoothly, did you mean with Quicktime or VLC?
 
Choppy here also

This is strange. I just wiped my drive and reinstalled Leopard last night. (Got my dual 3.0GHZ/8800GT/4GB machine last Tuesday and decided to low-level format and start from scratch) All updates applied and running smoothly.

The new Indiana Jones' HD Trailer plays smoothly as expected at 24 fps.

The Greatest Game HD stutters at 8,9,10 fps.

I will note that I was able to "Save As Self Contained Movie" the Indiana Jones QT. When trying to save the TGG QT, I get a "Could not be saved. The movie contains an incorrect time value." error.

There could be something wrong with the encoding?

**UPDATE**

Downloaded the latest VLC-Intel build and TGG plays back smoothly.

Apparently, Quicktime doesn't like something about the way it was encoded...
 
Won't even play smoothly in VLC for me. I have the latest version. The read me says that if the video is choppy then:

- Open the preferences.
- Now go to the Modules part of the preferences.
- Select decoder and then 'ffmpeg'
- Enable 'hurry up' -> click 'Save'

I can't find the modules part in preferences. I find 'output modules' as a submenu of 'video' but can't find anything about decoders etc.

Leo 10.5.2
 
sketchguy said:
There could be something wrong with the encoding?

**UPDATE**

Downloaded the latest VLC-Intel build and TGG plays back smoothly.

Apparently, Quicktime doesn't like something about the way it was encoded...
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I agree there appears to be something peculiar about the encoding on that file. As I said before, if I re-encode it using Visual Hub it plays fine in QT.
 
What Codecs are you using?

QuickTime is using H.264 to play the movie on my computer.

I am using Perian.
 
Out of S&G I ran it on my iMac 2.0 GHz.

Quicktime was a joke - 6 FPS :eek:

VLC ran great lost only 6 frames in the whole movie
 
I have a video file with "choppy" playback in Quicktime (smooth in VLC). After installing Perian, the file plays just fine in Quicktime as well. So my guess would be that the people who are experiencing smooth playback in Quicktime have Perian installed...
 
martinlk said:
I have a video file with "choppy" playback in Quicktime (smooth in VLC). After installing Perian, the file plays just fine in Quicktime as well. So my guess would be that the people who are experiencing smooth playback in Quicktime have Perian installed...
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I do not have a mac pro, but by looking through the thread it seems that perian is the key to get the video working properly.
 
martinlk said:
I have a video file with "choppy" playback in Quicktime (smooth in VLC). After installing Perian, the file plays just fine in Quicktime as well. So my guess would be that the people who are experiencing smooth playback in Quicktime have Perian installed...
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Huge difference with Perian!!!!! I got full 24FPS in QuickTime on my iMac 2.0GHz.

WOW shame on QT
 
Heck even I avg about 8 fps on an old mdd power mac G4 dual 867mhz/2GB/9800 Pro/10.5.2/ in quicktime. In VLC however, I can only hear sound, screen stays black, and get the dropped frame errors constantly. FYI, I also have the latest perian 1.1 installed.
 
Plays fine in QT on my

iMac 1.83Ghz Core Duo X1600 2GB Ram

I do have Perian installed though

Perian is a plug-in for QT that plays a ton of formats. I got it mostly to play FLVs that I save from Youtube, but it plays a ton of other stuff.

http://www.perian.org
 
Wild-Bill said:
I couldn't agree more. And their quality control is failing on ALL fronts, not just software. If they have people reading the forums here, they should report back that there have been many a comment on how they need to take that 14 billion in cash they're sitting on and invest it in quality control, company-wide, ASAP.

Everything has suffered because of that damn iPhone. Take some more of that 14 billion and establish a dedicated iPhone team, Apple, so you're not robbing other departments of resources.
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Yea no kidding, Apple is starting to get like microsoft....ditch all the Apple apps for 3rd party app's.
 
The test video plays perfect on my machine, but heres a 10mbps 1080p test video from the Canon XH A1 camcorder....mine plays well until the 2nd set of horses (with riders) come in and it gets choppy, real choppy. Now if I replay it again it seems to buffer or something and sometime it will play smooth.

Canon 1080p Video

I have Perian installed but not VLC...im wondering how 10.4 handles it?

Mac Pro 2.66
5GB ram
Nvidia 7300 GT
OS X 10.5, 10.4 on external.
 
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