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QuickTime Player and iTunes completely UNUSABLE to play content stored on a LAN?
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<blockquote data-quote="chomper" data-source="post: 1165765" data-attributes="member: 185457"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I've had a Mac for only a few weeks. There are some things I love (The Dock, look & feel, stacks, Mac App Store, XCode, Spotlight, Quick Look) and some things I dislike (inability to bypass the trash, inability to delete only selected files from the trash, inability to sort folders first in Finder). But there's one big issue because of which I literally cannot sleep and which might force me to consider selling the Mac.</p><p></p><p>It all goes like this:</p><p></p><p>We have three Windows 7 PCs networked together (ethernet) at home. I'm used to watching videos and listen to music stored on network drives. This is no problem - I've just done some tests (sitting at the third computer and playing content from the first, using WinAmp for audio and MediaPlayer Classic for video): 800MB WMV file opens and plays in two seconds, 1500MB HD avi file does the same in three seconds, 10+MB MP3 files launch instantly. I can jump to any spot in all the mentioned files INSTANTLY with no noticeable delay. All this on a Windows PC derided in Apple ads.</p><p></p><p>Now comes my new Mac connected to the same network and using iTunes with QuickTime:</p><p></p><p>iTunes opens a 2MB MP3 file for 45 seconds, displaying the spinning ball and not responding during that time.</p><p></p><p>QuickTime Player X (with Perian) does the following when opening a standard 700MB avi file: the app launches instantly but only to display a black window with a "Loading movie" message. After about two minutes the playback starts but it's extremely choppy and un-watchable.</p><p></p><p>Could anyone please tell me where the problem(s) can be?</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I've also noticed that when I want to copy a larger file (20+MB) from a PC to the Mac, the mac displays a "preparing to copy" dialog box and it takes ages before the actual copying takes place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chomper, post: 1165765, member: 185457"] Hello, I've had a Mac for only a few weeks. There are some things I love (The Dock, look & feel, stacks, Mac App Store, XCode, Spotlight, Quick Look) and some things I dislike (inability to bypass the trash, inability to delete only selected files from the trash, inability to sort folders first in Finder). But there's one big issue because of which I literally cannot sleep and which might force me to consider selling the Mac. It all goes like this: We have three Windows 7 PCs networked together (ethernet) at home. I'm used to watching videos and listen to music stored on network drives. This is no problem - I've just done some tests (sitting at the third computer and playing content from the first, using WinAmp for audio and MediaPlayer Classic for video): 800MB WMV file opens and plays in two seconds, 1500MB HD avi file does the same in three seconds, 10+MB MP3 files launch instantly. I can jump to any spot in all the mentioned files INSTANTLY with no noticeable delay. All this on a Windows PC derided in Apple ads. Now comes my new Mac connected to the same network and using iTunes with QuickTime: iTunes opens a 2MB MP3 file for 45 seconds, displaying the spinning ball and not responding during that time. QuickTime Player X (with Perian) does the following when opening a standard 700MB avi file: the app launches instantly but only to display a black window with a "Loading movie" message. After about two minutes the playback starts but it's extremely choppy and un-watchable. Could anyone please tell me where the problem(s) can be? EDIT: I've also noticed that when I want to copy a larger file (20+MB) from a PC to the Mac, the mac displays a "preparing to copy" dialog box and it takes ages before the actual copying takes place. [/QUOTE]
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