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iBook G4 800MHz and DivX?
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I'm thinking of making "the switch" and buy a new iBook G4 12", but i have two concerns:
A friend of mine has an iBook G3 700MHz, OS-X, and 384 Mb ram, and he has problems running high resolution DivX-movies smoothly.
* Is this new iBook G4 fast enough for this task?
* Is the monitor-spanning-firmwarehack (extended desktop) REALLY working on the new iBook G4? (post links, please)
Anyone with the new iBook G4 12" who has tested this, please answer...
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Dunno about the firmware hack, I read that it's working. But I'm quite sure that playing divx is no problem for that machine, since my 600 MHz iBook is already powerful enough for that task.
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My 600mhz iBook has no problems with DivX either.
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Depends. My iBook 700 Mhz does not play back my hi-res DivX file which I encoded myself - video = DivX 5.1 @ 1000 kbp and audio = MP3 @ 160kbps - at the full fps. It is watchable but not smooth.
With the DivX files one downloaded from the net (uh-hum), you may be OK.
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One iMac, iBook, one iPod, way too many PCs.
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Do the DivX players available for OS-X take advantage of the altivec in the G4?
If so, the new iBook should be faster... don't you think?
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I'll do some experimenting with my 800 G4 ibook and post the results.
(Last edited by wvx; Oct 29, 2003 at 10:08 AM.
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Originally posted by mr_sandin:
A friend of mine has an iBook G3 700MHz, OS-X, and 384 Mb ram, and he has problems running high resolution DivX-movies smoothly.
What player is he using? I found that mplayer2 is much better at playing DivX movies than vlc or Quicktime. For the record, I could watch DivX movies on a 300MHz Celeron running Windows, a 800MHz G4 therefore should be more than fast enough.
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i use the divx codec (3ivx.com) in quicktime, and divx doctor 2 (iuno, look with google) on my 700mhz/16vram ibook. no problems if i dont get too frisky and try to run a whole ton of stuff at a time.
anyone else use the doctor? i swear by it
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I don't like having to convert the files first. I use mplayer2 or the codec from divx.com - they play the files as they are.
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The best/fastest way to play DivX is to use the divx codec from divx.com with Quicktime. It's *way* faster than MPlayer. But the codec doesn't seem to work on Panther... I guess we'll have to wait for a few days to get an updated codec.
And btw, I'm pretty sure a 800mhz G4 can decode any divx out there...
(Last edited by pat++; Oct 29, 2003 at 04:51 PM.
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High-res DivX (960Kbps/160Kbps MP3) plays fine on my PowerMac G4/400/1GB/Radeon 8500 whether using QuickTime+3ivx, vlc, or mplayer. MPlayer seems to give the best performance, though, because the video playback is a bit smoother, and with less noticeable choppiness. vlc comes next, and lastly Quicktime+3ivX. I don't use the "Doctor" because I hate having to do pre-viewing operations just to watch something (and especially if it turns out to be not what I intended to watch).
Don't know if this is a fair comparison, but at least in terms of raw CPU processing power, the newer iBooks ought to blow my Mac away (except when it comes to disk/video).
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