• Michael Brodner AKA Bones 7 months ago
    Hey all. I'm at a loss. I view most of the great content on this site via my Apple G5 desktop. However, it puzzles me that most of the time, when viewing HD content on here, it plays back choppy and in a lot of cases makes it unwatchable due to quick editing or what have you. The friggin PC at my work can display the movies really great. How come my beast of a machine cant??? Im sad about this because Ive shot so much HDV footage and want to export my movies out to high quality but if I cant even enjoy them that way then Ill continue to upload at a smaller size. Is there a setting I can change in my viewing preferences or is there a better or faster video card i need to buy? More ram? what????

    Bones
  • Andrew Pile 7 months ago
    The first thing you should do is make sure you've upgraded Flash to its most recent version which has significant OS X tweaks.

    Here's the link: adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

    The latest version is 9.0.115

    Also Flash is very greedy processor-wise, so its best to close apps that might be doing background work.
  • Michael Brodner AKA Bones 7 months ago
    Thanks Andrew I just downloaded the latest flash and installed it. Ill let u know how I make out
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  • Mark Jensen 7 months ago
    RAM plays a big part in playing HD content as well. I'm not a mac guy, so i can't speak for the mac. how much ram do you have? as far as i know, the G5 should come with enough video power to play HD. also, what's the movie format? .mov? .mp4? raw files?
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  • Tom Goskar 6 months ago
    I too found that HD on Vimeo wouldn't play on my aging 4.5 year old 1.8GHz SP G5.

    I've just tried Andrew's tip on updating Flash, and it's done the trick! Butter smooth HD on a machine I thought was past it :-)
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    wow, awesome!
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  • LOBUJIT FILMS 6 months ago
    I have a dual processor Power PC G5 and even after the flash player upgrade, I still get jittery HD, both in small and fullscreen. Any other thoughts?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 6 months ago
    Nope. Get a faster machine. Or, write to Adobe to optimize Flash even more. :)
  • Michael Brodner AKA Bones 2 months ago
    What about adding a better video card or something?
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  • LOBUJIT FILMS 6 months ago
    My G5 is plenty fast. It's dual 2 GHz processors, 4 GB RAM, and over a Terabyte of storage space. I edit HDV on it and play it back fullscreen without any choppiness, so it can't be my machine, video card or monitor. What do you mean optimize flash? Is it not already optimized?
  • Michael Brodner AKA Bones 6 months ago
    Well first of all, I think the fact that you're rockin' 4 GB of RAM is making a huge difference right there. I'm only running 2 GB.
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  • Eighty Four Films 2 months ago
    I agree with Lobujit. I got a decent system and its playing back flip-book style. any suggestions?
  • Blake Whitman 2 months ago
    Unfortunately some machines just won't be able to handle it. But you can try to make sure there isn't anything else running on your system that is CPU intensive. The alternative is to just watch HD videos with HD turned off :(
  • Michael Brodner AKA Bones 2 months ago
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooo :(
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