At 7:53 PM -0700 4/20/2012, tortoise wrote:
480p would need about a 1ghz g4 or better, and 4x AGP.
I play 480p and 720p and 1080p on my 933-MHz 2002 QuickSilver G4 all the time.
I can play the same, after transcoding, on my 300-MHz SmurfTower.
Besides the processor speed also important is the graphics card and
how much VRAM that has and as mentioned above the AGP speed. For AGP
2x can't get better than 360.
Don't fixate on frame size.
The bottom-line issue is ability of your CPU to handle audio and
video streams codecs and their compression. If the compression is
too much for your CPU to keep up with, then the video will have
problems playing. But the same video, transcoded and/or decompressed
will play just fine.
If your machine isn't up to the task of decoding a video as-is, as
it's streamed, then grab and transcode it! One of the great things
about MacTubes is that "download" feature. Do that. Get the mp4
version. Then pass it through ffmpeg.
- Dan.
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