Some good food for thought. Thank you all! I think I've found a possible internal DVD replacement drive. May give that a try if I can't find the appropriate Handbrake settings.
Looking at Handbrake, it looks like I can either use an H.264 video codec or MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) codec. Any idea which of these I should be using? I don't see a way to use an MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 codec. Also, I can output to either MP4 or MKV format. Recommendations? Thanks again, Doug > At 10:07 AM -0800 11/23/2011, Clark Martin wrote: >> G3 Macs that shipped with DVD drives also had video hardware that decoded >> the video data. > > decoded the MPEG-2 video data. > >> A G3 just isn't up to full screen video playback. > > My Smurf does just fine full screen. Just need to be careful of the source. > >> About the only thing to try is to use hand brake and reduce the video size >> (width and height), by at least half. > > Don't tweak the frame size. Change the codec. If you don't have a hardware > MPEG-2 decoder, then transcode the source into MPEG-1. That will most > certainly play - even full screen. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
