At 12:44 PM -0600 11/2/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 2, 2008, at 12:26 PM, ·•Èݘٯ wrote: > >> By the way, if i'll expand the memory in my ibook g3 (the one at the >> first message) i'll be able to play videos without any problems? > >No.
What Kris said. Before throwing memory at any problem actually LOOK to see if you need memory. Launch Activity Monitor, and click on the System Memory tab. IFF the Inactve and Free pools are BOTH small (< 10 MB) *and* the page out rate is going nutz THEN you need more memory for your current application mix. If any of those conditions is not true, then buying memory would be wasted money. (IFF == If and ONLY if) >The G3 iBooks all tend to bog down on video in OS X. QuickTime plus Perian plus Flip4Mac will cover most codecs. The problem is that the G3 doesn't have enough umph to do well on the newer (poorly written) codecs such as Xvid, DivX, and the other new MPEG4-based formats. It should do ok on MPEG-1 and -2 tho. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
