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Shimona - Oct 23, 2005 - 10:33 pm
I downloaded vlc-0.8.2 from versiontracker.com as per another post on this site.
I am using that program to watch DVDs using my external Iomega CD-RW drive. The DVD starts up, but it is choppy. Any way to get this running smoothly? I have a 700 MHz PowerPC G3 and 640 MB of memory.
Any ideas? What should I do?
Thanks in advance!
Shimona Bhatia :-)
I am using that program to watch DVDs using my external Iomega CD-RW drive. The DVD starts up, but it is choppy. Any way to get this running smoothly? I have a 700 MHz PowerPC G3 and 640 MB of memory.
Any ideas? What should I do?
Thanks in advance!
Shimona Bhatia :-)
philippe99 - Oct 25, 2005 - 3:49 pm
Shimona, welcome to macosx.com
Playing a movie requiers a lot of Input/Outputs and a big flow of information between the drive and the cpu. What you describe may be simply due to the fact that drive may not communicate (through the USB port+cable or the Firewire one ) as quick as required for a fluid playback of the movie.
On slow machine, like your G3, I would suggest to rip the DVD contents onto your internal harddrive (using for instance MacTheRipper) and opening the resulting VIDEO_TS folder directly into VLC
MTR:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715
Regards
Philippe
Playing a movie requiers a lot of Input/Outputs and a big flow of information between the drive and the cpu. What you describe may be simply due to the fact that drive may not communicate (through the USB port+cable or the Firewire one ) as quick as required for a fluid playback of the movie.
On slow machine, like your G3, I would suggest to rip the DVD contents onto your internal harddrive (using for instance MacTheRipper) and opening the resulting VIDEO_TS folder directly into VLC
MTR:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715
Regards
Philippe
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