[vutenor]

Hi guys,

I have a new core duo iMac. It has a 250 gb hard drive, so I took my opera dvds and ripped them onto it, so I wouldn't have to fish them out all the time (I watch a LOT of opera). They're on my computer as mp4s and they play just fine.

Well, I brought a few home with me to my mom's place for the christmas break. I brought them as mp4 files on DVD-Rs. I then transferred them to her computer. For some reason, they won't play without constantly stopping. It won't even go a half a minute before the computer starts working and I get the multi-colored "just a minute" circle.

My mom's iBook is a G4, 1.2 Ghz, 256mb. Is it because the memory isn't large enough? I can't imagine why a fairly new machine wouldn't be able to play these files. I usually rip them by act, so each act is only about an hour long (less than a gig of space).

Any ideas?

[pat++]

Try to install the 3ivx codec, it's much faster than Apple's mp4 decoder. (indeed memory might be the issue).

3ivx D4 4.5 - MPEG-4 Audio and Video Compression

btw, which codec do you use? H.264? which resolution? (not sure 3ivx will decode H.264... maybe only H.263).

[vutenor]

i use H.264 for everything