Mpeg 4 - poor playback performance since Tiger/QT7
Hello!
Since my Update to Tiger/Quicktime 7 my .mp4 movie playback is very slow - from 0,02 fps to a few fps. I tried a lot of movies - with the same results.
Movie size is 720xabout450, Audio AAC, Video Mpeg 4 (made with 3ivx - mp4-compatible).
With Panther/QT6 with or without the 3ivx QT plugin everything worked fine.
Removing all 3rd-party QT-plugins (incl. 3ivx) didn't help.
System is iBook G3/800, 640 MB RAM.
Any idea?
No.
I've found that movie playback in QuickTime 7 takes about 5% more CPU time than it did in QuickTime 6. That's 5% regardless of the codec you use. While that may not sound like much, if you were previously close to the edge of acceptable playback this change can make a surprising difference in results. You can go from mildly choppy playback to something that might occasionally fall to one half of your previous frame rate. In some cases it's not a slowly decreasing playback quality, but more like falling off of a ledge.
You might also want to investigate to see if any background tasks are running that weren't present under Panther. Widgets would be the first thing to check. They shouldn't be a problem until you've launched Dashboard for the first time after a reboot, but thereafter they can cause problems (normally nothing to worry about, but I have seen a few cases of "runaway" widgets).<small><hr width="75%"><small>If this suggestion helps in any way, a confirmation or acknowledgment would be appreciated, since that would also help others who may be having the same difficulty. Do for others as you would have them help you.<center>Thanks for sharing, Waymen.</center></small>
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iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
I bought 2 iPhone 4S models on the first day. One for my wife and one for me. The strange thing was that mine would kill the battery in 4-6 hours and ran VERY WARM to the touch. My wife's phone worked great. It was cold to the touch. She would forget to charge it at night... and the battery performance was great... even better than our prior 3GS models.
What was the difference? I have my phone connected to Exchange for my corporate email. But exchange is not exactly the problem. The issue is in Notification Center. For some reason, I had hundreds of calendar reminders that kept refreshing on notification center. Furthermore, the reminders would flicker between the time remaining and the start time for the event at such a fast rate that it could not be read... (clearly a bug)
What is the solution? Go to Settings>Notifications>Calendar and disable Notification Center. You can still have the "alert style" set to Banners, or Alerts and you will still receive notices about your events, but it will not BUILD a summary in the Notification Center drop down screen. This is where the BUG exists. [Oddly, this does not affect my iPad 2, but is an issue for iOS 5 on the iPhone (different builds, maybe?)]
So, it appears that Notification Center has an endless loop in collecting the calendar events from Exchange and this is burning up our 4S batteries. Once you stop the madness from Notification Center, your iPhone 4S will perform as advertised.
Enjoy!
TimTimothyW wrote:
iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
I bought 2 iPhone 4S models on the first day. One for my wife and one for me. The strange thing was that mine would kill the battery in 4-6 hours and ran VERY WARM to the touch. My wife's phone worked great. It was cold to the touch. She would forget to charge it at night... and the battery performance was great... even better than our prior 3GS models.
What was the difference? I have my phone connected to Exchange for my corporate email. But exchange is not exactly the problem. The issue is in Notification Center. For some reason, I had hundreds of calendar reminders that kept refreshing on notification center. Furthermore, the reminders would flicker between the time remaining and the start time for the event at such a fast rate that it could not be read... (clearly a bug)
What is the solution? Go to Settings>Notifications>Calendar and disable Notification Center. You can still have the "alert style" set to Banners, or Alerts and you will still receive notices about your events, but it will not BUILD a summary in the Notification Center drop down screen. This is where the BUG exists. [Oddly, this does not affect my iPad 2, but is an issue for iOS 5 on the iPhone (different builds, maybe?)]
So, it appears that Notification Center has an endless loop in collecting the calendar events from Exchange and this is burning up our 4S batteries. Once you stop the madness from Notification Center, your iPhone 4S will perform as advertised.
Enjoy!
Tim
Check this out. They are stumpped:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/28/iphone-4s-battery-apple-enginee rs -
Poor playback of TV Shows in iTunes
Hello.
I am having a problem with poor playback pf TV Shows downloaded from iTunes. Recently the Lost TV Show, Season 3, has been skipping in both Quicktime and iTunes.
I am running all the newest software.
I have a G4 PowerBook.
1.5 GHz PowerPC G4
768 MB DDR SDRAM
20 GB of free space on the Hard Drive
This computer is pretty new and should be able to handle this.
Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?
Thanks in advance for any help!
TomI have been on the chopped video trail now for months.
Thinking the issue was solved after I had a power supply replaced at the local genius bar.
The apple repair guy was convinced I had some bad RAM and he took it out.
My video was playing smooth as silk with the original 512 MB RAM.
However I wanted to have another Gig of RAM, so I purchased 1-Gig from Apple.
Installed it myself, Video still smooth with no problems.
About two weeks later the chopped playback returned.
I have not removed the new 1-Gig RAM to see if it is the culprit.
Update pending...... -
Satellite Pro S500-11C - poor audio performance
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I have a Satellite Pro S500-11C which suffers from the poor audio performance mentioned in reviews of the S500-11C (yeah I should have *+listened+* to the reviews and excuse the pun).
This is making it very difficult to use this laptop for audio applications such as music, VOIP and Skype without having to carry about a heaeset of some type.
Has anyone else eperianced this problem and had a solution. Any help from Toshiba??
Best Regards,
AndrewSorry but what kind of problem do you mean exactly? Is the sound not loud enough or what?
I mean this notebook has standard stereo speakers and not high end harman/kardon speakers inside.
I have Satellite L300 in front of me with same stereo speakers. Sound is OK but not so good as on other laptops with h/K speakers.
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Choppy Videos and poor playback quality
I have a problem with the TV shows im trying to play in itunes. The audio runs at the correct speed and sounds fine, but the video is choppy and wont sync with the audio that is playing at the correct. I thought the problem was with my computer but i recently restored my computer to the original factory settings with Vista. I Tunes is the only program that is giving me trouble with my video playback. Any Advise?
DFW, does your computer meet the minimum specifications for playing videos in iTunes (as given on the iTunes download page)?
2.0 GHz Pentium class processor or better
512MB RAM
32MB video RAM
If it does, take a look here and see if any of the tips help:
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows Vista video playback performance issues
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