At 5:06 PM -0700 9/7/2008, DM wrote: >Both the Lombards and Pismos are running Tiger 10.4.11 and Have >Quicktime 7.5 installed. > >The Pismos play the clips just fine in Quicktime Player and they work >fine in Logger Pro . > >When a .mov file is opened in QT Player on the Lombard, the first >frame appears upside down, but seems to chug through correctly >thereafter. In logger pro, the video file will not advance, even >frame by frame, and simply and annoyingly stays with the initial >upside down image making the experience pretty much useless but >curious - to the delight of my class who found it terribly >amusing :) . > >I used Pacifist to reinstall the earliest version of Quicktime I could >find - 7.1.6, but the result is the same. Has anyone experienced the >same behaviour on their Lombard, and if so did you find a workaround? > >I'm contemplating moving back to Panther 10.3.9 on these machines to >see if the compatibility improves.
QuickTime 7 sucks, plain and simple. It's terrible on older/slower Macs. In fact, on older/slower Macs, the QuickTime playback frame rate has been going down down down with each release. The peak performance was back at QT 5.0.3. Your best bet, I guess, is to try Panther/QT6... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
