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#1
May 27th, 2005, 08:30 PM
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| Wmp, Osx, Slow - Suggestions ? I've got WMP9 on a PowerBook (OSX 10.3) and don't seem to be able to get it to connect to WM9 streaming media at any better than dialup speeds (46kbps) On the same network I have a PC with WMP10 that gets 232kbps ! It's very upsetting I've tried to use MPlayer, VLC and Real to access the WM streams but can't make them take over from WMP either for an example, check out http://bigbrother.3mobile.com.au/live.asp ... there are a bunch of people in the forums there with the same issue so I'm not going totally mad !  |
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#2
May 28th, 2005, 05:05 AM
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| Try launching the media player app, the open the preferences and look under the connection tab. Set that to the proper level...DSL/Cable or LAN...and see if that helps out.
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May 29th, 2005, 09:49 PM
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| no, I mean 46Kbps which is what it says in the statistics pane. Settings are for DSL/Cable, but it doesn't seem to matter what I set them to, this is the best I get. Nasty pixellated dialup style. When I view the same stream on my PC then I get 232Kbps (or sometimes just over 100) and a siginficantly better experience. ANyone know how to make WMP9 actually play the higher bandwidth portions of a multiple-bitrate codec9 stream or just I just give up ? Or is there an alternate player for OSX that handles the codec better ? |
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#4
May 31st, 2005, 11:05 AM
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| 46kb/s is about 9 to 10 times faster than what you'd get with a 56K modem (4.7kb/s). The windows media player on the Mac is a bit buggy...it seems M$ didn't put a good effort into it to ensure that it was a proper app. No real surprise there at all. An option might be the Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime. It'll handle most windows media formats in Quicktime. It worked better than the M$ player for most files I ran across, though some were a bit buggy or didn't work at all (rare). Unfortunately, it's not compatible with QT7 as of yet.
__________________ . | mdnky@macosx.com | My Homepage | My Music | Restore the Pledge | MacOSX.com Widget | • MacBook Pro Core2Duo 2.33GHz 15", 2GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB, DL Superdrive, OS X 10.5, • Apple 23" Cinema HD Display, Apple Slim-Stainless Keyboard, Logitech Optical Scroll Mouse • iPhone 8GB, iPod Photo 30GB, Nikon D50, Nikon L6, Epson 3490, Epson R1800, HP LaserJet 1200 • LaCie 500GB d2 Quadra, LaCie 160GB d2 FW, harman/kardon SoundSticks II, Mighty Mouse, iSight |
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May 31st, 2005, 11:30 PM
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| thanks for the Flip4Mac link. Although it installs fine, it seems to have a problem with the streams from the sample site (bigbrother.3mobile.com.au). I so with BB had decided to use QT but I guess it's not going to happen this year. ANyone else any other clues I could try ? yours in desperate need of an AU BB fix ! |
