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Subject: Re: [G] Most Bang for your Buck?
At 07:14 PM -0700 06/19/2005, J.Weintraub (WarBanner) wrote:
Okay, so I'm using my 350mhz B&W G3 w/ and Xclaim VR card w/TV-out
as a Digital Video Recorder (among other things). The full-screen
video is a bit jerky at times, and I was wondering: would I be
better off spending my money upgrading the CPU to 500mhz G3, or the
video card to a Radeon 7000 (both cost about the same)? Which is
going to make a more noticable improvement in playback, or is
neither sufficient, necessitating a larger upgrade?
Which OS?
Jaguar - 10.3.9
Which QuickTime?
Well, none, really. I've got 7 in there, but I mostly use VLC. I prefer the
controls and it seems to support more formats better. Sad, really.
Which format are the videos? mpeg-1, -2, -4, divx, ?
All of the above. Some are my own vidcaps, some are downloads. All kinds of
formats and codecs.
WRT hardware, first make sure you're not choking things by being
memory poor or using a slow hard drive. Then, IMO, the faster
processor is more useful then the faster video card. Some of these
codecs require lots of number crunching.
Drive is a 7200rpm 200GB. Memory is 256, with almost nothing else running but
the player. I doubt going to 512 will hurt, but I don't think memory is my
chokepoint.
Yeah, I was wondering whether the codecs get decoded at the CPU or the GPU, I
guess. So if it's the CPU, then that's likely where I should look. Thanks.
BTW, I have a GeForce 4 laying around. Any chance that Apple's Nvidia flasher
would work on a G3, even though it says it's for G4s?
J
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