Easy way to fix choppy Janne vid's?
Jef...@hotmail.com
dread choppies. I see 2 seconds of motion every 10 seconds. Audio is
fine. I don't know how to handle PCs hardly at all. I read what Janne
wrote about checking bios and viruscheckers. I never se up any bios or
viruscheck on this machine anyway. That's beyond me. He mentioned
something about screensaver and processor speed settings. Again, I've
never altered or dealt with such settings on this machine. Also these
all seemed like guesses. Is there any known quick fix at this point? I
thought I saw someone recommend dedicating all RAM to the player. Easy
way to do that? With old Macs you go to the app, get info and change
memory there. I see no such thing with my Win98. Thanks for any tips!
--JP
Janne G
What machine are you using? MAC or PC.
What version of the operating system (OS), win98 win2k, winxp, linux,
BSD, OSX or what?
Speed of the machine?
Memorysize?
What player?
Janne G
Noel Roy
jang.remov.@remov.cad.remov.luth.remov.luth.remov says...
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>Jef...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> OK, I now have XviD and can play the Janne vids. But I also have the
>> dread choppies. I see 2 seconds of motion every 10 seconds. Audio is
>> fine. I don't know how to handle PCs hardly at all. I read what Janne
>> wrote about checking bios and viruscheckers. I never se up any bios or
>> viruscheck on this machine anyway. That's beyond me. He mentioned
>> something about screensaver and processor speed settings. Again, I've
>> never altered or dealt with such settings on this machine. Also these
>> all seemed like guesses. Is there any known quick fix at this point? I
>> thought I saw someone recommend dedicating all RAM to the player. Easy
>> way to do that? With old Macs you go to the app, get info and change
>> memory there. I see no such thing with my Win98. Thanks for any tips!
>
>What machine are you using? MAC or PC.
I had the choppies with Sprints4-7 (but not as bad as described above) on two
PCs, but they run fine on a Mac Powerbook. Sprints1-3 are fine on both
machines.
>What version of the operating system (OS), win98 win2k, winxp, linux,
>BSD, OSX or what?
XP home and pro respectively.
>Speed of the machine?
Both P4s, one at 2.8Ghz, the other at 1.8.
>Memorysize?
512 and 768 respectively.
>What player?
Tried all players. MS, Real, Winamp. Made no difference.
>
>Janne G
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Camilo
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Jeff, are you downloading the files, or viewing them streaming? If you're
streaming, you might try downloading then viewing. It takes a long while,
but I download Janne's files and when I veiw them, they're smooooth as silk.
I often have jerkyness and long hesitations/delays when I view streaming
videos, and I have a wide band connection. FWIW, HTH, etc.
Cam
Janne G
Yeah and under this worlds the server is at it's max so expect some
delays of delivery from it, i have never seen this load of it before.
If you whant a smooth transfer then try it at 07:00 Europeen time then
the load has come down.
Janne G
Jef...@hotmail.com
I always download a file, don't do streaming.
I tried on Mac OS 8.6 on Real Player and QT, maybe a 200mHz machine,
100mb RAM. (I vaguely recall I could play vids on this but not sure how
recently.)
I also tried on PC laptop 300mHz, 100mb RAM, Win98, Real Player---this
one I recall always played older Janne-vids just fine. DivX no problem.
Jef...@hotmail.com
Janne G
I would say that you are on the borderline of requirements for playing
the videos. With the change of format to Xvid the tradeoff for better
quallity is higher load on the machine. Xvid is a mpeg4 format just as
Divx5 are, the older format Divx4 did not compress the file with
desirable quallity when stepping up the format of the video so i had to
drop it and move over to Xvid.
I have two solution for you, and i know that one is working perfectly
and one maybe working due to some feedback that i have got.
The first one is to repack the files to a format of your own choosing
and take down the size to around half in each direction then it will be
usable on nearly all machines. Recomended tool is Virtualdub in windows,
for mac i think that mplayers mencoder is converted to mac and is
usable, it is somewhat complicated for a novice to use though. ffmpeg
seams to be converted to Mac also.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://www.mplayerhq.hu
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
The other way to get it working is to use a dedicated Xvid player and
hope that it is optimized for your system so it can handle it.
http://www.xvidmovies.com/players/
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
This is the only way around the problem with slower machines, if you
try, let us know how it goes because there are more people out there
that whant to know how to do it but don't dear or are to shy or just
waiting for some to ask the right question (you) and by that get the answer.
Janne G