Re: Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-22 Thread t...@io.com
On Jun 20, 1:37 pm, Dan wrote: > At 9:25 AM -0700 6/20/2011, t...@io.com 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 Mon

Re: Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-22 Thread t...@io.com
On Jun 20, 1:17 pm, Alexander Gomes wrote: > What video card do you have? Having the best cpu in the world won't matter > if your video card can't keep up to process the video I tried to remember to check at home last night, but forgot. It is one of the video cards that shipped with the machin

Re: Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-20 Thread Dan
At 9:25 AM -0700 6/20/2011, t...@io.com wrote: I have a Canon SX130IS and my SO has an A720. They both have the option to record video. The SX130 records 1280 X 720 @30fps in h.264 format and when it is uploaded to the Mac, it appears as a .mov file. Let's see, a spec sheet says "H.264 + Line

Re: Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Gomes
What video card do you have? Having the best cpu in the world won't matter if your video card can't keep up to process the video -- 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

Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-20 Thread t...@io.com
I have a Canon SX130IS and my SO has an A720. They both have the option to record video. The SX130 records 1280 X 720 @30fps in h.264 format and when it is uploaded to the Mac, it appears as a .mov file. Let's see, a spec sheet says "H.264 + Linear PCM (stereo)" When I play the videos (from ei