Video is very choppy

I have a older mac mini. I have tried to load everything I can think of to make videos on the internet play better, but they are still very choppy. Any Ideas?

what is your mini, a PowerPC G4 or an Intel model?

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I just rented the Rum Diary on my apple tv, it was playing fine until about an hour into the movie then the video got very choppy. I tested my internet speed, it was just under 11 Mbps, can anyone tell me where i can file a complaint about this?

Hi,
Same problem with same type series 6 Samsung TV about 2 months old.
Problem is most noticeable during fast pan scenes or anytime 2/3of the screen is doing something. Chunky, chunk, chunk.
So the trick is to just turn off all the Samsung Motion Plus stuff off?
I'll dig thru the menus and see what I can find. Is this something Apple can address?

IChat to PC... video/audio very choppy on my end, good on their end???

I'm using an iMac G5 2GHz with OS 10.4.6 and the person I'm connecting with uses a 4 year old Windows machine at 400MHz. She is telling me that using iChat on my end and AIM 5.9 on her end... my audio/video seems pretty good on her end, but the audio/video I see of her is very, very choppy with a/v sync problems and to the point it's essentially unusable. We tried iVisit as well and what she sees/hears is good on her end with that and a lot better on my end than iChat but some mild a/v sync problems and slight choppiness, though much more usable. Is her old/slow computer likely the culprit here? I'm assuming that the 400MHz processor is likely not able to churn fast enough to get good audio/video out, and can't really be overcome by high speed internet. Is this likely the case?

HI Joshua,
Get her to do this.
Start a chat.
She shoul see that your incoming Vid is infact the front one of two tabs.
She should click on the rear one to bring it to the front.
It is her preview.
Next should look to the right where a small squarish icon has appeared.
She should click on this
Next a slider will have come up.
She should slide this to the left.
At this point it is worth you having the Connection Doctor open(in the Video menu)
You should see that her frame rate and Bit rate goes up.
Th eprocess actually reduces the quality of the video she is sending. As a conseqence there is not so much data in every frame and her processor can pass more frames and the video will look smoother.
You may find her Audio also improves.
10 frames a sec is about what you should be expecting form a PC. If you get more and the picture is fine otherwise consider it a bonus.
12:14 AM Tuesday; May 2, 2006

My streaming on videos is very choppy and stalling visually , what can I do to fix this ?

When I play movie trailors or videos using Firefox , my videos are choppy and stall badly
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Months ago

Your plugins list shows outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.
# Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
# Java Plug-in 1.6.0_13 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the [[Java]] and [[Flash]] plugin to the latest version.
See:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp#jdk (you need JRE)
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Upgraded to CS4 and video is VERY choppy.

I'll add some computer stats but honestly, I dont think they matter that much since the same system was running CS3 like a champ.
Dual Core 2 (2.4ghz e6600), 8gig DDR2 ram, Raptor 10k OS drive, 5x 320gig data drives. Nvidia 8800gts card. Vista Prem. 64bit.
I shoot on a Sony EX1 and after upgrading to CS4 I noticed an EXTREMLY slow playback on the preview. No effects added, just dragging down and simple cuts. The audio typically goes smooth though.
Any initial thoughts? or can I provide any more details to help what may be going on?

I found a temp fix that worked for a system a friend asked me to look at. It is not really a valid solution but it does seem to fix the problem at least until the root cause can be found. If you set the priority of the ImporterProcessServer to above normal, it seemed to fix the problem (at least on the system I was working on). To do this, open task manager, right click on the process and click Set Priority -> Above Normal.
Doing this isn't really recomended as it could take cycles from more important system processes or other critical processess. In this case, he just sets the priority up when he needs it, then back down when he is done.
In case you are wondering, the specs of the system I was working on are:
System:
Core2Duo e8400
Asus Maximus Formula Mobo
8gb DDR 800
GeForce 8800GTS 640 (latest drivers from NVidia)
1x750gb System drive
1x1.5tb Video storage
1x1.5tb Swap / Render drive
Windows 7 64 Beta build 7048
Windows Vista 64 (dual boot)
Project:
Hockey game shot at 1080 60i + some shots at 720 60p. Each were in their own sequence.
He did mention that he still couldn't view multiple video streams without it slowing down, but at least he was able to view the normal footage without delay. Also, I performed and tested the fix only on the Windows 7 system, so I am not sure about Vista but it should help there as well. I look forward to hearing about a true fix.
Good Luck

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I have tried, video driver versions, uninstall and clean install itunes. nothings seems to work.

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what the title says.
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Very choppy video

When using QuickTime Conversion to output to 1920 x 1080 and/or 1280x720 using the default settings within Options --> Settings (save for changing the quality to 'High) the output of the finished video is very choppy. Now using an Intel-based iMac with Leopard, I hadn't seen this before with my old (R.I.P.) G5 and Tiger. What changes should be made within 'Settings'?
Perhaps while not relevant, the settings within Easy Setup are as follows:
Use: Apple Intermediate Codec;
Rates: All Rates;
HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60.
This is frustrating to say the least. The video as input from the source camera is fine. I.e., no frame drops, etc. The source clip plays fine in QuickTime.
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Tom,
When viewing the video it appears that it's skipping frames; the video is not smooth or 'fluid' if you will. These are of Diesel Freights being taped with the train moving perpendicular to the shooter and one can see them 'skip' or 'jerk' when viewing the video.
The computer is an 20" iMac, 2.66GHz CPU (Intel Dual Core) and was purchased in January, 2009. (Right before, for the same money, one can get a 24" screen, 4GB RAM, and 2x the hard disk, standard. Of course. Anyway...). There is >135GB of available disk space on this systems 300GB Disk, which is formatted OS-X Extended (Journaled).
Noteworthy is that Videos that were exported on the G5 I had are not showing this problem when played on this iMac. Only those that were exported from this iMac. Also, when the video is viewed within the canvas it's very smooth. So I wonder if there is something awry with the export process?
Is it worth reinstalling FCE? I ask this also because you had mentioned not seeing multiple choices for output formats such as I see and had provided the link for. E.g., the ability to export at both "HD 1280x720" and "1280x720 16:9.".
Thanks for your patience; I know this isn't easy to diagnose without having it in front of you.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Very choppy preview

Hello
I have an intel core 2 duo processor (2,66GHZ E6700) with 3GB of ram (667MHZ), and in my preview window the video is very choppy. My graphic card is Radeon X1600. I'm on windows xp 32bit. What could be the problem ?
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652694?tstart=0 includes a link to the computer I built... since the GTX 285 is no longer sold, I would now go with a GTX 460 or whatever is the current "best bang for the buck" - AND I would buy 4Gig-by-3Sticks memory to be able to expand from 12Gig to 24Gig if needed

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mr
Are you running the 9.0.1 Update of the program and on what computer operating system is it running?
Is your video card/graphics card driver up to date according to the manufacturer of the card?
Is your computer optimized, including maintenance of pile ups of preview files, conformed audio files, and conformed video files?
Do you have the latest version of QuickTime installed on your computer with Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1?
What are your project settings and what are the properties of your source media? When you say that "used to be able to export...." is that on the same computer, same brand/model/settings for the camera recording the video now in use, same Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1?
Where player are you using for the playback of these exports?
Please give us more details on the size of the projects (then and now) as well as details of the customized export settings in your Share/Computer/ route. Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1 is only a 32 bit application running in 32 bit or 64 bit system. Not sure if computer resources might be taxed more so now than before.
More later.
ATR

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Sometimes a video will start smooth but within moments it becomes very choppy and jumps from image to image. The browser itself does the same thing where it bogs down to a crawl and scrolling is also very choppy. Very frustrating. I have been using Firefox for years now since it first hit the scene, but until I upgraded to ver. 8 this did not happen.

Please see the help article on what to do when <ins>[[Firefox is slow]]</ins>
and the help article on <ins>[[High memory usage]]</ins>
See also the help article on <ins>[[Managing the Flash plugin]]</ins> which describes how to adjust hardware acceleration.
If this answer has solved your problem, please mark the question as "Solved". This way you will help others in a similar situation.

Had some old movies from reel to reel on a vcr. i converted these to mp4 format using pinnacle video capture, quality was not great but it was decent enough on my computer. when i placed these on my ipad it was much worse and very choppy. i have handbra

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Jon,
What Julianne said at first about re-linking made perfect sense and I followed it easily, had actually already been there. But in my situation now, it didn't have any effect. The directory of folders which had already been added were still just as they were, and the outstanding balance are not in the desired position. And the folders which had been brought in earlier today when I clicked "synchronize folder", were still missing all the metadata.
Maybe this means I need to start over, and I'm fine about doing that that, but I don't know what it takes to accomplish that. I'm concerned now that any changes I make out of guesswork could only make the problem harder to resolve. It just feels to me like something I did at the beginning just wasn't right, and now it's a tangle.
Can you advise?
Thanks,
Gary

Timeline playing back very choppy over multiformat video.

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