Clamshell iBook and video playback

[princealfie]

I am encoding video at low-res (ipod quality) mp4/mv4 and was wondering how well the Clamshell iBook can play back the video with its 4 MB graphics card?

 

[Eidorian]

Don't use Quicktime. Use VLC. Quicktime 7 is worthless on older machines.

I get 30 fps watching video podcasts in VLC. 3-4 fps in Quicktime 7.

 

[princealfie]

Thanks. I love VLC. Looks very awesome.

Sad to hear that Quicktime 7.0 chugs along on the clamshell. I really love the clamshell as a road warrior machine. Very tough built.

 

[Eidorian]

Thanks. I love VLC. Looks very awesome.

Sad to hear that Quicktime 7.0 chugs along on the clamshell. I really love the clamshell as a road warrior machine. Very tough built.

Yeah, I can decode 720 x 480 XviD using VLC on my old Power Mac G3 450. I just found Quicktime so useless which was ironic since it's an Apple application made specifically for Apple machines.

 

[princealfie]

Wow, you can playback that resolution without any trouble on the G3? 🙂 Impressive!

 

[Eidorian]

Wow, you can playback that resolution without any trouble on the G3? 🙂 Impressive!

Well it eats up 100% of the CPU but it plays perfectly. Don't expect to multitask.

 

[princealfie]

how much RAM in your clamshell? Just wondering 🙂

 

[Eidorian]

how much RAM in your clamshell? Just wondering 🙂

I had a Power Mac G3 and not a clamshell. I'm trying to buy a clamshell though. 😀

 

[Maxwell Smart]

I have a clammy 366 and it handles low-res video playing in my browser fairly well. Anything more than like 320x240 and it chugs, though that is when its running both firefox and adium.

 

[princealfie]

Is playback affected by which version of VLC you use?