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| Thread ID: 124056 | 2012-04-03 06:26:00 | Playing .mov files on two different computers | slofox (5767) | Press F1 |
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| 1268192 | 2012-04-03 06:26:00 | So I have a little vid cam that records in .mov. I have two computers - one at work and one at home. Both have the latest version of apples .mov player for windows. One computer (a.) plays the videos perfectly. The other (b.) appears to jump a few frames every 2 seconds approx. Question is why. Puter a.). Dual core, running Vista home. Reasonably specs but not that new. Plays perfectly. 4gb RAM Puter b.) Older. Single core, XP with service packs etc. Decent card. 2gb RAM. Waddya reckon? Just the RAM or is there more to this? Thanks in advance. |
slofox (5767) | ||
| 1268193 | 2012-04-03 06:40:00 | In my experience, Quicktime is one of the worst performing media players on older hardware which is why you probably have playback issues. I'd try playing the MOV in VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/) on the older computer instead. | sal (67) | ||
| 1268194 | 2012-04-03 06:48:00 | In my experience, Quicktime is one of the worst performing media players on older hardware which is why you probably have playback issues. I'd try playing the MOV in VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/) on the older computer instead. VLC player gives me sound but no images. Weird...not just with my files either. Has done this with other people's files too. |
slofox (5767) | ||
| 1268195 | 2012-04-03 07:30:00 | On the XP try disabling hardware acceleration heres instructions how (www.deskshare.com) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1268196 | 2012-04-03 07:52:00 | On the XP try disabling hardware acceleration heres instructions how (www.deskshare.com) Actually, that made things worse - much worse. Well in Quicktime, anyway. It completely froze VLC... |
slofox (5767) | ||
| 1268197 | 2012-04-03 07:55:00 | One computer (a.) plays the videos perfectly. The other (b.) appears to jump a few frames every 2 seconds approx. Puter a.). Dual core, running Vista home. Reasonably specs but not that new. Plays perfectly. 4gb RAM Puter b.) Older. Single core, XP with service packs etc. Decent card. 2gb RAM. Ram and CPU. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1268198 | 2012-04-03 11:36:00 | Yeah the specs are just a bit low. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1268199 | 2012-04-03 19:35:00 | Oh well - guess I play 'em on the home machine. Thanks for the replies all. |
slofox (5767) | ||
| 1268200 | 2012-04-03 21:01:00 | I would reencode reducing the video bitrate. Xmedia Recode does batch processing | BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1268201 | 2012-04-03 21:30:00 | I would reencode reducing the video bitrate. Xmedia Recode does batch processing That may make a big difference. Some "little vid cams" record .MOV using Motion JPEG, which is basically 30fps (or whatever) of JPEG images at whatever resolution your camera records at. Decoding horsepower required isn't too great, but the sheer data bandwidth would probably be causing you the issues in that case. | MushHead (10626) | ||
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