At Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:36:58 -0800, "D. Fabel" wrote: > > >My daughter is using a few old iMac G3 slot-loaders for a kiosk-style >informational video for her robotics team's upcoming competition. She has put >together a video in iMovie, but we can't seem to find the "right" settings to >get the video to playback smoothly in Quicktime (these are 400-500MHz, >768MB-1GB Ram, running 10.4). She's tried exporting the video to a Quicktime >movie using various settings, but nothing has worked so far - the audio is >always great, but the video just can't keep up. Would anyone happen to know >what format the video would need to be for this to work well? > >The solution she has come up with is to create a DVD with iDVD, move the >TS_Video folder to the hard drive, and then run the video using DVD player. >Unfortunately, this only works on the iMac's that have an internal DVD drive. >The ones that are CD only refuse to let the DVD player app start up. Is there >a work around for that? I would love to put a few kids movies on one of these >old boxes as a video "babysitter" while my wife and I steal a few moments >together away from my youngest. >
I would try using VLC Media Player - there is an OS 10.4 version that I see - to play the DVD video off the internal hard disk. -- tom coradeschi tc...@skylands.ibmwr.org -- 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
