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"Lost" via iTms - ho'ard - 02-09-2006
I consulted with my accounting department and determined that I was able to risk the $1.99 to download the 1st episode of Lost season 2.
No trouble downloading-- about 210 MB, took maybe 10 minutes (the bottleneck was on the Apple end since I was able to surf at seemingly normal speeds concurrently).
Burned the file to a CD via Toast, and put it on my laptop hard drive.
Sound is smooth but video hitches continually no matter what I try-- 3 seconds of action, freeze for 5 seconds, repeat. Tried a tiny tiny window even-- same deal.
It's an iBook G3/900 w/ 256 of RAM, OS 10.3.9, playing in iTunes 6.02.
Anything obvious here about what could be causing the problem?
Thx . . .
Re: "Lost" via iTms - jimbrady - 02-09-2006
Copy to your hard drive and play. The CD drive isn't fast enough for video.
STUPID ME: you already copied it to the HDD.
Re: "Lost" via iTms - jimbrady - 02-09-2006
...and let us know if it works.
Re: "Lost" via iTms - JJ - 02-09-2006
I don't think the G3 iBooks can handle the video decoding. My wife's G3 800 has the same problem. Everything works fine on my G4 800.
Re: "Lost" via iTms - Paul F. - 02-09-2006
Ditto what jimbrady said...
On both counts...
Re: "Lost" via iTms - 3d - 02-09-2006
Well did it work?
Re: "Lost" via iTms - jimbrady - 02-09-2006
I edited my post because he'd already said he copied it to the HDD. Nothing has actually been suggested yet.
Re: "Lost" via iTms - NewtonMP2100 - 02-09-2006
good excuse to buy one of dem video ipods. . .
Re: "Lost" via iTms - BigGuynRusty - 02-09-2006
JJ is correct, G3 doesn't have AltiVec, i.e. the VelocityEngine.
I am amazed it plays at all.
BGnR
Re: "Lost" via iTms - ho'ard - 02-09-2006
Well, that sucks.
Think I'll do any better on a cube/450?
My "real" mac has no way to do anything but sit at it and I can't sit 'cuz of a back problem.
This is the first real life situation I've encountered that suggests there's any reason to upgrade to a G4 iBook.
(PS any chance we could all make some sort of mental note to read a post before replying? Literally half the respondents here apparently didn't).
BigGuynRusty Wrote:
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> JJ is correct, G3 doesn't have AltiVec, i.e. the
> VelocityEngine.
> I am amazed it plays at all.
>
> BGnR