On Mar 6, 2011, at 10:33 PM, ah...clem wrote: > On Mar 6, 12:47 pm, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> Your computer is way too slow to do the streaming stuff. >> > > how can that be possible? a QS w/ stock vid card plays DVD's with no > problems. how can internet video be more MB/sec than that when it's > way more compressed? it's got to be the internet connection is too > slow.
Not, when most video cards of that era had a built in hardware MPEG decoder for playing DVDs. Otherwise they couldn't have played DVDs and that would have been uncool. But the decoder is only good for the specific coding on a DVD and AFAIK not good for anything else. You might be able to play back a DVD saved to disk as either a disk image or as the video files. I'm not sure, I did it once but on a somewhat higher performance machine so it may have been handling it in software. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
