Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread lyne
How do you download video and what is VLC? It's YouTube that runs slow. Other video is not so bad. TV shows bought from iTunes I'll have to check. Last time I got one it ran fine. I'm planning to buy an episode of Ghost Hunters so I'll see if it plays as well as it used to. On Sep 10, 6:09 am,

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread iJohn
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:25 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote: ... what is VLC? From the website for VideoLAN - VLC media player VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit organisation, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the

Re: iTunes 9 on a G4

2009-09-25 Thread Dan
At 6:37 AM -0400 9/25/2009, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I am running a Dual 500 MHz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB of RAM, but I have yet to download the latest iTunes. I recall a discussion on this List regarding iTunes 9, that included some complaints about iTunes 9 being slow on older Macs. What is

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, lyne wrote: How do you download video and what is VLC? It's YouTube that runs slow. Other video is not so bad. This means your problem isn't the video, it's your network connection. That's the difference between Youtube (and, I'd expect other streamed video

Re: iTunes 9 on a G4

2009-09-25 Thread Po-en Tsai
On 26/09/2009, at 1:03 AM, Dan wrote: iTunes 9 is slow on ALL Macs, regardless of their speed, but overall not that much slower than previous releases. If you need the latest store features, get it. Otherwise it's probably worth sticking to 8.2.1 for now. iTunes 9 is slower on my Mac's, but

memory placement

2009-09-25 Thread Al boone
I have a power mac G5 2.0 and was wondering if it make any difference where you place different memory sizes. I have 2x512 installed first and then I added 2x1gb for a total of 3gb. Will it make any difference if I move the 2x512 in the first slots or not? TIA, elbert.

Re: iTunes 9 on a G4

2009-09-25 Thread Tanner Peavler
I myself have not yet updated iTunes 9 but I might be soon, today I got my weekly apple email and they had some new tv shows for free and I wanted to get them but couldn't because I don't have the latest iTunes. So it looks like to buy anything from the iTunes store you have to have the latest