Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-05 Thread Dan
At 1:36 PM -0800 1/3/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:48 PM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: 3 GB's per second Time Warner RoadRunner turbo Talladega Fast Run some traceroutes to the destination, to make sure there isn't a problem between you.

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread Nestamicky
On 03/01/11 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff). Was this an error on Apple's side. Was it fixed in 10.5. Why would they do this? Could this explain

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread Nestamicky
On 03/01/11 10:52 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This was covered in exhaustive detail on this list a month or so back), so anything that can be moved to the much-faster GPU really makes a difference. John, What Bruce is really saying

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Nestamicky wrote: On 03/01/11 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff). Was this an error on Apple's side. ?? No this was a

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread imrazor
On Jan 3, 11:16 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff). Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This was

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread imrazor
On Jan 2, 1:24 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz  1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get aYouTubeto play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube.  Can this

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread Dan
At 8:52 AM -0800 1/4/2011, imrazor wrote: Interesting. I thought the reason that VLC handles video playback on older Macs (this is true, right?) was that it offloaded a lot of video processing to the video card, whereas iTunes/Quicktime did not. Have I been misinformed? VLC does NOT use the

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:48 PM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: 3 GB's per second Time Warner RoadRunner turbo Talladega Fast Run some traceroutes to the destination, to make sure there isn't a problem between you. This is not happening when using the G4 MDD, G5

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Dan wrote: To elaborate a bit... DVD-Video is low-compression MPEG-2. Easy to play, even on a very slow machine. Streamed video is highly compressed Flash or MPEG-4 H.264. Very CPU intensive to decompress and decode -- and that's before the GPU

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-03 Thread Dan
At 1:48 PM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: 3 GB's per second Time Warner RoadRunner turbo Talladega Fast Run some traceroutes to the destination, to make sure there isn't a problem between you. Why do you think some bus speed is involved? Playing video is very CPU intensive, not

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-03 Thread dc
On Jan 2, 2:24 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz  1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. It sounds like the Cube is nicely upgraded, the weak

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:39 AM, dc wrote: On Jan 2, 2:24 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. It sounds

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:56 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Playing video is not a problem its the streaming stuff like YouTube, iChat and Skype. Compared to my G4 1.25 MDD and G5 2.7 PowerMac the Cube isn't in the hunt even though it's got a 1.2 GHz processor. Yes it DOES have to do with the video

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:56 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Playing video is not a problem its the streaming stuff like YouTube, iChat and Skype. Compared to my G4 1.25 MDD and G5 2.7 PowerMac the Cube isn't in the hunt even though it's got a 1.2

iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube. Can this be a Bus speed issue the Cube is 100 and the MDD is 167.

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread Dan
At 11:24 AM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube. Can this be a Bus

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Dan wrote: At 11:24 AM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100