Prev: Wireless network troubleshooting article
Next: iDont want to make any more of this stuff ...
From: Nick Le Lievre on 26 May 2010 12:05
I have been running Mac OS 10.6.3 happily for some time, recently bought a
HD camcorder that can record 1080p 50FPS. Under Mac OS using Toast 10 I can
playback these avchd .mts files but the 1080p 50fps ones playback jerky,
choppy and like a slideshow whereas running Windows 7 on the same machine
they playback without any extra software and are smooth as silk.

With Windows 7 and its HD capabilites I feel Mac OS is falling behind a long
long way, may start to use Windows 7 more on my iMac now which kinda defeats
the purpose of having an iMac.

From: Ian McCall on 26 May 2010 12:15
On 2010-05-26 17:05:32 +0100, "Nick Le Lievre"
<nicklelievre(a)jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> said:

> With Windows 7 and its HD capabilites I feel Mac OS is falling behind a
> long long way, may start to use Windows 7 more on my iMac now which
> kinda defeats the purpose of having an iMac.

I installed Win 7 in VMware. It was a horrendous experience, see my
thread of woe for it. Is finally all now working - I have installed
nothing but updates, Visual Studio 10, Office and Firefox. That's it -
nothing unusual. I clicked Windows Media Player for the first
time...and the damned thing says it can't start due to having a more
recent(!) version of a dll than it expects.

HD capabilities? It can barely run programs over here, and its updating
mechanism has been appalling. I'm very, -very- scathing so far in a way
that I wasn't about XP.


Cheers,
Ian


From: Nick Le Lievre on 26 May 2010 12:21
"Ian McCall" <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote in message
news:864vo7FfoaU1(a)mid.individual.net...
>
> HD capabilities? It can barely run programs over here, and its updating
> mechanism has been appalling. I'm very, -very- scathing so far in a way
> that I wasn't about XP.

I am just running it natively at the moment and have had no problems,
installed Windows 7 after dividing my hard drive equally. Used the Snow
Leopard dvd to install bootcamp64.msi and all the drivers were installed. I
have not downloaded any updates yet just installing security essentials and
Windows Live Mail. The first thing I tried obviously was to playback the
1080p 50fps avchd file that was recorded on my camcorder and it is smooth as
silk whereas under Mac OS its with Toast 10 (one of the few apps that can
playback avchd) it was a horrendous expierience. I feel they need to make
Mac OS have proper hardware acceleration and they need to do it now.

From: Jim on 26 May 2010 12:26
On 2010-05-26, Nick Le Lievre <nicklelievre(a)jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> "Ian McCall" <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote in message
> news:864vo7FfoaU1(a)mid.individual.net...
>>
>> HD capabilities? It can barely run programs over here, and its updating
>> mechanism has been appalling. I'm very, -very- scathing so far in a way
>> that I wasn't about XP.
>
> I am just running it natively at the moment and have had no problems,
> installed Windows 7 after dividing my hard drive equally. Used the Snow
> Leopard dvd to install bootcamp64.msi and all the drivers were installed. I
> have not downloaded any updates yet just installing security essentials and
> Windows Live Mail. The first thing I tried obviously was to playback the
> 1080p 50fps avchd file that was recorded on my camcorder and it is smooth as
> silk whereas under Mac OS its with Toast 10 (one of the few apps that can
> playback avchd) it was a horrendous expierience. I feel they need to make
> Mac OS have proper hardware acceleration and they need to do it now.

Can you try playing the files in VLC?

Jim
--
Twitter:@GreyAreaUK
"RESEARCH showing that men lie more than women is proof they should stop asking
them awkward questions in the first place, say scientists." - The Daily Mash
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 26 May 2010 12:27
On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:15:03 +0100, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

>On 2010-05-26 17:05:32 +0100, "Nick Le Lievre"
><nicklelievre(a)jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> said:
>
>> With Windows 7 and its HD capabilites I feel Mac OS is falling behind a
>> long long way, may start to use Windows 7 more on my iMac now which
>> kinda defeats the purpose of having an iMac.
>
>I installed Win 7 in VMware. It was a horrendous experience, see my
>thread of woe for it. Is finally all now working - I have installed
>nothing but updates, Visual Studio 10, Office and Firefox. That's it -
>nothing unusual. I clicked Windows Media Player for the first
>time...and the damned thing says it can't start due to having a more
>recent(!) version of a dll than it expects.
>
>HD capabilities? It can barely run programs over here, and its updating
>mechanism has been appalling. I'm very, -very- scathing so far in a way
>that I wasn't about XP.

Oh, a fresh install of XPsp3 can do the same trick (not my most recent
one which was smooth but took ages, but the one before that got
completely befuddled in a similar manner to your 7). It's the new MS
model, you know.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
L33t 5p3@|< 1s f0R R3t4rds
 |  Next  |  Last
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5
Prev: Wireless network troubleshooting article
Next: iDont want to make any more of this stuff ...