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Specked Out G3 Won't Play Videos
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 368275" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>It refuses to play any video at all, or drops frames on some videos?</p><p></p><p>The G3's usually came with a Radeon 7500 with 32MB VRAM, but this won't be your problem. Since 2001, video has become more and more compressed, requiring more and more processing power to decode it - @500mhz, your CPU is barely fast enough to decode simple MPEG2 movies, much less anything more sophisticated. If you're trying to decode h.264 (Quicktime/iTunes based video) you're going to really struggle to kee the frame rate above 10 - 15fps. As for any HD content, forget it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 368275, member: 21101"] It refuses to play any video at all, or drops frames on some videos? The G3's usually came with a Radeon 7500 with 32MB VRAM, but this won't be your problem. Since 2001, video has become more and more compressed, requiring more and more processing power to decode it - @500mhz, your CPU is barely fast enough to decode simple MPEG2 movies, much less anything more sophisticated. If you're trying to decode h.264 (Quicktime/iTunes based video) you're going to really struggle to kee the frame rate above 10 - 15fps. As for any HD content, forget it. [/QUOTE]
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