On 11/4/07, Patrick Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > On 11/2/07, Mike Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just curious, what OS are you running on? > > > > I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel > > based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like 7 years > > old. It plays videos every bit as good as VLC or QT. > > Windows XP on AMD Duron 1 Ghz. CPU & 512 MB RAM. On this machine, I > can't play ANYTHING in QT formats above 320 x 240 (Doing so just > simply results in "freeze frame" playback).
I have no experience with QT on XP. I would think it should work, but maybe QT is slow on windows XP. > > I do have some issue btw that there's NO throttling on downloads > > besides bittorrent. > > > > It tends to suck up every available bit of bandwidth. That I find as a > > major problem and it can make websites, especially videoblogs pretty > > much un browseable on the side. It does not play nicely on the > > network. > > That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Although I'm not sure it's a > BitTorrent thing (I doubt it is). No it's specifically NOT a bittorent thing. Miro has throttling on bittorrent. They have no throttling on regular downloads. That is the problem. It can use up your whole download pipe. > > My only advice to them would be simplify, simplify, simplify and > > polish polish polish on the UI. > > Yeah, even if they have to open up the designing of skins to the open > source community. It's way more than skins. It's not an aesthetic issue so much as usability. > > Between the visual clutter and the downloads hogging the network I > > could see this being seen as heavy, but not to the point of bloatware. > > Obviously you and I see things a little differently in this area. > > > I have not used Miro on windows. I suspect their could be some > > problems with their use of windows QT. I have heard complaints about > > apple's itunes and QT technology being bloated and unstable on > > windows, but I thought they had resolved many of these issues on > > recent releases. > > QT & iTunes are both a *bit* slow in loading, but beyond that they > work for me without any problems. My guess is the slowness is something inherent in QT. Can you play any higher res videos in QT or iTunes then in Miro? -Mike > > > Cheers :D > > -- > Pat Cook > Denver, Colorado > PODCASTS - > AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - > http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - > http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 > PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ > PAT'S HEALTH & MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - > http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ > YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ > THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow > THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - > http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - > http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
