On Jun 20, 1:37 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 9:25 AM -0700 6/20/2011, [email protected] wrote:

> >Anybody playing videos from their Canon camera with acceptable
> >performance on a G4?
>
> Apple's h.264 codec, in QuickTime, is not very good.   Try VLC.

I'll give that a try.

> Use a tool such as Activity Monitor to watch the cpu and memory...
>
> fwiw, I can play some h.264 on my 933-MHz QuickSilver G4.  But,
> depending on the compression used, sometimes it skips a bit even in
> VLC.  My solution then is to either re-compress it, or transcribe it
> to something like mpeg-2, using ffmpeg.

Also a useful suggestion.

Thank you.

Jeff Walther

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