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May 20th, 2008, 04:09 AM
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| Watching movies on other computers I just got a Macbook Pro, and mostly it is working great. There is one problem though: I have a lot of movies etc. on my desktop that I would like to be able to watch using my new macbook. However, if I try to do this using QuickTime it will work fine for some time but then I always get a message saying that QuickTime has unexpectedly quit. I have also tried using VLC to do this, but the playback is not very smooth, and jumps around too much to make it worth watching anything. Does anyone know of a solution? Another media player or something else I can do to make viewing media over my network run more smoothly?  |
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#2
May 20th, 2008, 04:24 AM
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| Hi Racquelle, I just wondered whether you had Flip4Mac or Perian installed? They are extremely useful to have. I'm surprised VLC gets the stutters as it's fairly robust when it comes to playing movie files .... what is the file extension of the movies you want to watch? |
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#4
May 20th, 2008, 05:01 AM
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| Were these movies re-encoded to .avi or is this their native format? |
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May 20th, 2008, 05:22 AM
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| Can be either really. A lot are XviDs. If I copy them over to my mac I have no problems with watching them (maybe the odd QuickTime crash, definitely no problems with VLC). It is only over the network that I seem to have these issues. |
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#6
May 20th, 2008, 05:25 AM
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| I understood from your original post that you had trouble viewing movies that are on your Desktop ... do you say that the real problem lies with watching a move over a Network? Is it a Mac-Mac or Mac-PC network or other? Wired or Wireless? . Last edited by VirtualTracy; May 20th, 2008 at 05:33 AM. |
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#8
May 20th, 2008, 05:36 AM
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| What type of network Setup do you have? |
