On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Joe Duran wrote:
> One thing I can tell you is I had to close most other applications to > get the DVD to play smoothly, but it is only a 4x DVD. The speed of the DVD has nothing to do with playback. Playing a movie, like playing a music CD is always at 1X. > Freeing up > CPU and memory makes the movie play much better, Yes, decoding and playing DVD's is a heavily CPU (and GPU) limited task...a better video card helps dramatically. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
