Video Capabilities question for the techie......

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:12 am

Hi Vyn (or anyone else who can solve this problem for me), Im having a bitch of a time watching the Clone Wars cartoons on my computer. I downloaded an all new version of QuickTime to watch these big files (32 megs a pop in .mov format, bigger - and shittier - as .mpgs). When I watched the first one, it chopped so badly that I got about 1 frame in 10, if I was lucky. The audio came through okay, but not perfect. Is there anything I can download/use/do to improve my machine's ability to play back videos like this?

Note: I did have a divx player installed at one point, when a friend burned me a CD of the old LOTR animated pile of horseshit. The same thing happened when I used that player to watch the movie. Didn't know if that might answer a few questions or not.

Post by **vynsane** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:55 am

do you have a graphics card, or onboard graphics? if you don't know what i'm talking about, do you plug your monitor into the motherboard, in the same area you plug your mouse, keyboard and such into, or do you plug it into a separate part near your expansion slots? if it's on your mobo, you need a graphics card (preferably an AGP card...) if you already have a graphics card, you need a better one...

check http://www.pricewatch.com for good prices on computer equipment - on the front page, near the top right go to "multimedia" and under that, click on "video cards" - check it out there...

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:00 am

Ahhhhhh. It plugs in at the back with the printer and everything. Time for an all new PC, but not until next year I don't think. Thanks for the info though.

Post by **vynsane** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:37 am

not necessarily... what's the speed of your processor? if it's anything above 600MHz, it's cool... max out your RAM, and get a vid card before you do anything else... "upgrade to a new PC" is a fabricated slogan made up by dell - an upgrade is something you do to an existing piece of hardware to bring it up to modern specs - buying a new PC is buying a new PC...

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:22 pm

Yeah, I think Im buying a new PC. Pentium 2 200MHz is the horsepower you see before you. Not speedy or particulary good for anything except bitching around here and answering an email now and again. Oh, and looking at some porn.

Troopersmo · Post by **Troopersmo** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:23 am

holy fucking shit.. PII? 200 mhz? Fuck my grandma runs faster than that and shes been dead for 20 years!

ID say new PC is in the works. My GOD MAN, how do you live? Yup, pricewatch is king. also look at tigerdirect and another fav is computergeeks.com.

much luck to you in your search for um.. speed.

kidhuman · Post by **kidhuman** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:32 am

JJ, I have allten episodes downloaded. We possibly could work out a trade if you want a copy of it. Hehehehehe

mabudon · Post by **mabudon** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:31 am

My buddy grabbed 8 of em for me, but only 2 are in formats other than .mov and the current quicktime is 20 fucking megs....
Oh well, I can watch episodes 3 and 8, at least

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