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iTunes shows choppy as heck.

augustaugust where you come from is goneRegistered User regular
edited May 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey guys. I bought the last few episodes of BSG a while back, and have left off watching them untill I can get together with a friend of mine. The only thing is that they're playing choppy as hell. I'm not sure if my laptop just doesn't have the chops or if there's something I can do about it.

It's a Mobile Mobile AMD Sempron
Processor 3300+
795 Mhz 384 MB RAM

Let me know anything else you need to know.

I defraged, but I only have about %15 free space, so I guess that might be it.

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  • zilozilo Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Could be a RAM thing. Decompressing video eats kind of a lot of it.

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  • romanqwertyromanqwerty Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Umm what are u playing them in? Try differant players (Winamp or WMP). If that doesnt work maybe try converting their file type.

    I had a simmilar problem before, not sure what it was, but converting them to mpg4 fixed it and i think i played them in realplayer.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    They're in mpg4.

    I've tried VLC and WMP, and they won't play them. Only Tunes and Quicktime so far. And they have the same problem.

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  • romanqwertyromanqwerty Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Hmm have u tried converting them to another format and playing them with something else?
    I cant remember what converter i used but im sure video converters are plentiful.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    It’s probably a RAM issue, especially if you’re only having issues with Quicktime. Quicktime is a pretty poorly programmed media player—it uses far more system resources to output video than it should, and the resulting video quality sucks. But I wouldn’t try playing H.264 videos with any software on a machine that only has 384 megs of RAM; like zilo said decompressing video uses a lot.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Yeah, I guess I just ain't got the horsepower.

    Any good programs out there that will let me burn 'em to DVD? Something that can handle mpeg4? Will I have to worry about iTunes DRM?

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Okay, I've tried to download two different file converters and nothing will read the fucking files. Is it Apple fucking me with DRM? Does anyone have a way around this?

    (They're m4v)

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    august wrote: »
    Okay, I've tried to download two different file converters and nothing will read the fucking files. Is it Apple fucking me with DRM? Does anyone have a way around this?

    (They're m4v)

    It's not exactly a secret that every legitimate online video store in existence is selling DRM'd content.

    The only thing that can play back video bought from the iTMS store is Apple software.

    At any rate, h.264 is an extremely computationally intensive video codec (that's why it looks so nice at such low file sizes). An 800Mhz processor and 384 megs of RAM isn't going to cut it, even if you could open the content in a different program.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Shitcock.

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