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Can Anyones Mac Pro Play This Video Smoothly?

sketchguy said:
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...
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There may be something wrong with it but I played it in full screen from the finder in Leopard without opening any app, and it played perfectly. Although I did have perian installed before I read this thread.
 
For me QT always seemed to be a piece of BS, until i installed Perian.

Now, I ditched VLC since QT never has single tiny problem playing any movie. Even on my PBG4
 
2.66 GHz Mac Pro, 4GB RAM, HD2600 XT.

Choked playing it in QuickTime, VLC played it smoothly and with no dropped frames.
 
Perian made the difference

Brand new Mac Pro:
- 2.8 GHz
- 10 GIGs RAM
- 8800 Video card

Quicktime (Pro) without Perian -- 7 fps
...........Installed Perian............
Quicktime (Pro) with Perian -- 24 fps

Had no idea what Perian was before today, but thanks to the developers for what seems to be an extremely useful piece of software.

-J
 
it's an open-source video streaming/playback app that is cross-platform and updated all the time.

it tends to play things that other players can't play. lots of options, features, etc.

and free, which is nice.

it doesn't have a lot of visual polish, though. The video you watch looks good. the program interface is minimal.
 
Here's my configuration:
Mac Pro 2008
>2x2,8GHz Quad Core
>2GB standard Ram
>1st HD 320GB standard (OS)
>2nd HD 500GB (media)
>Nvidia 8800GT
>24" Display via DVI
>Mac OS 10.5.2 including other updates even the latest graphicdriver update is installed.

While playing this trailer or another trailer from apple's trailer website I get dropped frames using quicktime and vlc, too.

I even get dropped frames while playing 1080p mkv-h264 (in qt and vlc) and mpg files. I have Perian 1.1 installed.

looking on the Activity Monitor which shows the activity of every core only one is really occupied with the task and this core is on 10-100% load,is weird. THis depends on if the image which is currently shown is dark or bright.

I tried the same thing (1080p h264 movie playback) a while ago on a Dual G5 1.8GHz with a Nvidia 5200something with tiger - and there was not one dropped frame.
 
I've downloaded and watched various 1080p movie trailers from Apple. I've noticed QT results in 1/2 sec video slowness every 20-25 sec. VLC doesn't seem to have this problem.
 
I have and hour episode of Top gear in 1080p that weights 7Gb and it runs super smooth, unless u forward it like 5min but thats not the power issue, it just that VLC doesn't support HD very well yet.
 
first i just want to say, this is really sounds like a codec issue. i've accidentally played an .mp4 file in quicktime on my pc and it stuttered like crazy. anyway, i also just got my very first mac about 1 month ago (got a mbp :D) and i am very happy with it. the only thing is, i miss the codecs that's available for pcs.

i've read about perian and i'll give that a try since it's like the only codec pack out for mac. vlc is ok, but i never really liked it on pc since it has problems (plus i really just want to stick with QT like i did with windows media player). also, maybe you guys want to try mplayer. i heard that's pretty good too but i haven't tried it myself.

one more thing, DEFINITELY get the coreavc codec when it comes out for mac. i have it for pc and i swear, it's truly the best when it comes to hd h.264 files. it was like the miracle codec. i have files that are encoded at 1920x1080 and it stuttered really bad on my pc. after i installed the coreavc codec... holy crap i just couldn't believe it. sorry didn't want to sound like i'm advertising it but i cannot recommend that codec enough. def the best.
 
whistler222 said:
What's VLC??

is it a preferred video viewer for mac?
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I don't know about "preferred"... but it seems to play just about anything (but I'm not a DVD ripper or anything, either) and right now, it's what plays my daughter's "Charlie & Lola" DVDs since 10.5.2 seems to have broken Apple's DVD player on my 12" 1.5 GHz PowerBook.:(
 
It was choppy on my 2.8/10GB/8800GT Quad using QT, but played fine in VLC.

I just tried it on my MacBook Air with Perian, (thanks for the tip - I'd never heard of this program before this thread) and it plays at 18+ FPS.

Awesome.
 
My machine played this trailer just fine @ 1080P with Quicktime Pro in full screen. 24 fps straight through according to the QT inspector window. No skips or stuttering whatsoever.

Mac Pro (quad) 2.66GHz
6GB RAM
GeForce 8800GT
300GB Maxtor boot drive
24" LG 246W (1920x1200)
OS X 10.5.2 (up to date on all software)
 
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