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 -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
