Video performance

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, while most things are working fine one or two graphic and video things seem to have slowed down. In particular Final Cut Pro is more sluggish, both in its general response to moving around the timeline (lots more beach balls of death than before) and its video playback. Has anyone encountered this problem and found a solution?

Disconnect all peripherals from your computer. Boot from your install disc & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.
Make sure all of your software is updated to be compatible with the os update especially Perian, VLC and Flip4Mac if you have them installed.

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[Edited by: admin on 06-Jul-2007 11:10]

Hi,
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Hi,
today I've installed conky and configured it to run with some basic configuration fond here http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html.
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But just to have a proof I checked glxgears. Having conky turned on I had something like 40 FPS less (lack of smooth animation every time conky was refreshing its status was also easy to notice).
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Last edited by jakub (2014-11-03 23:58:30)

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Recent ML upgrade leads to widespread video performance issues.

Hello,
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I have windows vista service pack 2 (32 bit) installed on a laptop with the following specs: Intel Celeron M 520 1.6Ghz with 1GB of Ram
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Asking on behalf of a customer who has been unable to get any answers so far - are you able to help?
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We have a port of our Game Development Kit which allows us to recompile all our games using Crossbridge (http://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/) into SWF without any code modifications.
Overview:
Our framework is using OpenGL for rendering and we have successfully ported it along with the audio and video to run in Flash.
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Section "ServerLayout"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
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#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
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#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
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Option "DRI" "true"
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EndSection
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Group 0
Mode 0666
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Section "Screen"
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Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
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EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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Depth 16
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
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Depth 24
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EndSubSection
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Hmm, triple buffer doesn't seem to make a difference because enabling it was the last thing I tried, but no matter what I do, my FPS stays at ~750.....isn't that strange ? I know I've seen several posts here from Intel gma 950 owners that they get around ~1200 FPS.....
Although,
glxinfo | grep direct
does return
direct rendering: Yes
Thanks for the response anyway....
EDIT: Just tried disabling triple buffer and the composite extension, and glxgears still returns the same result! I just don't get it
Last edited by moljac024 (2008-02-08 10:33:36)

Choppy Video Performance

Safari is working for YouTube, but on other websites that have video content it gets choppy and very slow.
I tested my down load connection. It averages 2.3 Mbps. I'm using a 1 GHz G4 Powerbook with 768 MB Ram.
Firefox does the same thing as Safari.
Is there a better way to watch these video websites?
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Using the encoder WMV-9 I had to try several times in order to find the highest possible video quality.
A couple of HD music videos from youTube, Destinys Child "Say My name" and "Bootylicious" were the first to undergo transformation. the material itself is upscaled SD, but it's okay, since the final results has to be within a frame of 320x240 pixels.
I had the material encoded with (video) 3584 kbit/sec and (audio) 320 kbit/sec, Videosmoothness at 100 and keeping the framerate.
The result was stunning. But it still seem, that WMV material is more demanding on the CPU than appreciated. The result videos does contain jitter or perhaps even lost frames.
Yesterday I had a BluRay-rip of Baraka made. The Baraka movie is one of the absolutely best BluRay discs available.
This time I raised the max bitrate in Windows Media Encoder to 6000 kbit/sec. I've noticed in my previous experiments, that even though you choose a high setting in the encoder and choosing CBR, the encoder is actually using some kind of variable bitrate and the average bitrate is still lower than the ultra high settings of 3500-6000 kbit/sec. But by using ultra high settings, the encoder have room to give detailed footage enough bits leaving it without any digital artifacts such as macroblocking, which I hate.
The result. Well. The 320x240 matrix sure does have some impact on video material containing horizontal and vertical lines. It doesn't look too good to be honest. But organic shapes, such as animals, plants and human beings really looks amazing on a mobile phone )
But it still contained small amounts of jitter. During moments when I specifically knows the encoder used high bitrate like 5500 kbit/sec, the E72 lost a couple of frames.
Now. I have to do more experiments. Last night I found a way to make MP4's directly from a DVD, still containing subtitles. The material was the Twilight movie. My daughter, age 13, also got a Nokia E72.
The first experiments with small clips from the Twilight DVD showed, that the E72 can handle MP4 video at 8000 kbit/sec much better than WMV at 6000 kbit/sec. I noticed absolutely no jitter at all, even when using an ultra high bitrate setting like 8000 kbit/sec. Promising )
But....in order to enjoy high quality video material on your Nokia E72, I've noticed that you have to watch them in full screen. The socalled normal window (inside RealPlayer) degrades the video severe.
You also have to copy final video material directly to the phone. Don't let the Nokia PC-Suite transform the video material. Even the socalled "High Quality" setting in PC-Suite reduces video material to roughly 480 kbit/sec and that can't be recommended.
Now....the hunt is on to find the breakpoint of the CPU, using MP4 material. If it melts, it's my own responsibility. But for the time being, 8000kbit/sec (video bitrate, MP4) is no problem for E72.
I forgot to say: The audio quality on E72 is great. 9.5 stars out of 10. I've used Sennheiser HD600 headphones.

I've just found a splendid piece of software. Avidemux.
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Canon Powershot SX60 HS video performance in the dark?

When I shoot videos indoors, not too dark really, with 1920x1080 (60p), noises occur everywhere. I tried tuning it into 1920x1080 (30p) but it didnt capture the image as delicate as I wanted. How can I improve its performance in the dark? Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I would guess it depends on how dark the room really is. The SX60 has a very small sensor in it and starts to get noisy if the lighting is too low. That camera does not have a real fast lens and quickly loses light catching ability as you zoom in. Can you add some additional lighting to help your situation? I realize that may not be a possibility. Is there any way you can increase the ISO setting just a bit, or make sure the aperture is as close to f3.4 when shooting? These may not be available in video modes, but if they are, it could help you.
Cameras with larger sensors and brighter lenses will generally do better in lower light situations. If you are doing a lot of shooting in the dark you might need to consider a second camera with these traits.
Steve M.

What's with the video performance?

I have a 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro from maybe a year ago or so. It can't handle 720p quicktime videos from the apple trailers site. They stutter and drop frames like crazy. My older Macbook Pro could handle the 1080p videos. The newer one has the nvidea 9600M GT video card. Is there a setting or something I'm missing? Something I need to do to optimize performance?
It's a little ridiculous that this happens, considering my PC that is over 3 years older (and wasn't high end to begin with) can handle the same videos just fine.

I'm using Firefox. Everything is the latest. These aren't flash videos. I'm talking about the download version of Quicktime videos that cause Quicktime to open and it plays in there. I did just try saving the mov file and played it with VLC without any trouble.

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