Must be connection problems. I actually bared out watching it the
night after the presentation, which nearly drove me mad stopping and
starting it, skipping whole sections, etc due to the million or so
other Mac fans attempting to watch the stream - proves how sad I am,
but if I play it back now on my G4/800 Quicksilver '02, it's silky
smooth, even full screen (something I don't remember Apple's past
MPEG4 keynote streams being on the Mac mini I used to have, but then
I was on 1mbit before, now I'm on 4...) - if it's not connection
speed that's the problem, maybe my 6800 is making up for the CPU's
deficiencies? I'm not sure if nVidia's PureVideo/ATIs equivalent are
supported under OS X though, but my experience of this card pre-flash
under WinBlows is that it took nearly 100% of the video processing
required, even for HD, mpeg4, etc away from the CPU.
Jason Mayfield-Lewis
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On 21 Jan 2006, at 2:46 AM, James Sanderson wrote:
I have watched the keynote on my Pismo, which is a G3/500 w/ 384
MB of ram. The machine has a 100MHz bus. I was able to watch the
show without any issues, even when resized it a little to make the
picture larger. If I tried to resize using the menu choices, I
would get artifacts. Moreover, I was able to play it on upgraded
B&W's that I have, a G4/500 and a G4/600. They showed it quite
well, even when somewhat resized. However, the 500 was playing over
a wireless connection and did give me some issues if I tried to
resize using the menu choices. The 600 is directly connected to a
switch, and gave me no issues.
What I'm trying to illustrate is that there are a number of things
that may affect the quality of the video. Considering how the
movie played on the Pismo, I doubt its the encoding, or the
processor. Someone more expert than me may be able to give a
better reason for the way it played for you guys if it's really the
hardware.
As for Jorg's question, Jorg, you should try to install the
upgrade to 10.3.9. I have a Beige running it without any issues.
Put it on the machine using XPostFacto from OtherWorldComputing.
And as for boring? Well, it depends on how much a Mac fanatic you
are.
Jim Sanderson
On 20 Jan 2006, at 12:04, Juan Carlos De La Cruz wrote:
No... I don't think so..
I have a more recent iBook G4 1.33 with 1Gb RAM, and it is exactly
the same on it. Specially if you are lucky enough to get to get to
connect to the server... :(
On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Chris Zantides wrote:
I think they have encoded it in some HQ way that means you need a
G4 or something to watch it.
I had the same issues on my G3 B/W 450, but on the G4 ibook 1.25
and my wintel machine, no issues at all.
Chris
On 21/01/2006, at 3:22 AM, AB wrote:
Jorg wrote:
I wanted to watch the Jobs keynote but have to install QT
7 to do so. I have a beige 500Mhz G4 running OSX 10.3.7
and the update to 10.3.9 which is mandatory to install QT
7 didn't work out for me...
How can I watch the show? I don't really need QT 7,
running QTPro 6.5.2. Or is there a hack to get QT7 to
install under OSX 10.3.7?
Or is the keynote boring anyway??
- - - - -
I have a G3 iBook/10.4.4/QT 7.0.4 and tried several times
unsuccessfully on different days last week to watch the keynote
address. Got still frames of video with digital artifacts that
came up in the QT player like a slow slide show. Each successive
frame appeared to jump way ahead in the video and there was no
audio except for a brief second at the beginning. I initially
attributed this to Apple server overload, but now I don't know.
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