Paul, > Can anyone tell me a reliable specification to run MPEG2. Even when > authoring I have trouble when using MPEG2. At the moment the > machines we send out are PIII 800 upwards, 128mb RAM, Matrox G450 > graphics card running WinDVD or the Matrox drivers supplied and on > Win2000. When running interactives with MPEG2 the video loads very > slowly - around 8 seconds which is far too long.
I feel that your problem is a software one. I made a project 2 years ago with 180 very high quality full screen, 30 fps, MPEG 2 (around 1 mo/ sec CBR data rate!). Authoring: PIII 600 256 mo/ Matrox G400/ D7 / Win 2k / Direct media Xtra / Media Player 6.4 / Win DVD player : no problem! User: PIII 600 128 mo D7 / ATI All in wonder 16 Mo / Win 98 / Direct media Xtra / Media Player 6.4 /Ligos DVD soft decoder This project is currently running 4 hours a day on a regular basis since then. The loading off the videos (all the project in on Hard Disk, altough a fast CD-Rom worked also) is very fast (almost real time) and the playback is flawless. The only problems i got on the user station were: - Some imcompatibility between Win DVD soft player and the Xtra (the files played well in media player but i did'nt get any images from the Director project). Fixed this with Ligos player installation. - A well documented build up memory leakage problem. Fixed with 1 reboot each day routine and memory upgrade to 250 mo. Hope this help. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If anyone can return a spec or info on how I can speed this up I would > be grateful. > > Thank you > > Paul > > Past Forward Limited, England, UK > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pastforward.co.uk/ > > CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE > This email and any attachments are private and confidential. It > is intended for the > recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, > disclosure, distribution, > printing or copying of this email is unauthorised. You must not > read, use or take any > action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender > immediately by replying to this email and permanently delete the > email from your computer. > > The contents of any attachments to this e-mail may contain > software viruses which could > damage your own computer system. While we have taken every > reasonable precaution to > minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage > which you sustain as a > result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus > checks before opening > any attachments. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
