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Conveting HD H.264 1080p videos so i can play them?

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Hi i have a powerbook g4 but it doesnt have enough balls to play any 1080p trailers or movies and i have quite a bit of them that i wish worked.


Is there a converter out there that could possibly convert it to a different file format?

at the same time i would want to loose as little quality as possible.

thanks


Jakub

*and i have searched but people only talked about how G4s cant deal with 1080p but found no resolutions.
 
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You could try iSquint. It will convert them to a format that an iPod can play so your G4 should deal with them nicely. You may lose some quality, but that's life.

Oh, it's free too.
 
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For something with more options than iSquint, you can try Visual Hub (made by the same people actually). Visual Hub is not free but it's cheap as chips (around $20 USD). I use Visual Hub (on suggestion of another forum member) and I love it. I can convert anything (as far as I know) into formats for my Touch, PSP, all sorts.
 

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I'd like to know out of curiosity where you are getting 1080p trailers from.

Anyway, why waste time converting when you could try playing a lower resolution such as 720p or 420p? The advantage is that company supplying the trailer will have done a proper job with the convertion already. Well you would hope so.
 
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I'd like to know out of curiosity where you are getting 1080p trailers from.

Anyway, why waste time converting when you could try playing a lower resolution such as 720p or 420p? The advantage is that company supplying the trailer will have done a proper job with the convertion already. Well you would hope so.


I use the best Bit Torrent client known to man. Azureus. its Java based and really nice looking. The main page always has tons of trails, short films, music vids, and demos. AND ITS FREE!

its heavy on the computer but i dont usually download while im working on it... try it out you`ll like it. lots of preference options too.


I guess your right about the 720p and 420p kinda newb so i figured maybei could get a 1080p converted to still be better than 720p.
 

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