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    M1330 - Quicktime 1080p trailers

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Spydc, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. Spydc

    Spydc Notebook Guru

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    My M1330 has the T7500 cpu, 2gigs of ram, 8400gs video card. I connected the laptop via hdmi to my sharp lc46d64u. I tried playing a few 1080P trailers and I was disappointed to see that the frame rate was choppy and laggy. I figured the system would be powerful enough to run 1080P videos smoothly. Is there something i'm doing wrong?

    720P videos play fine though. I have the latest vista drivers.
     
    Spydc, Jan 2, 2008
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  2. CodeMonkeyX

    CodeMonkeyX Notebook Deity

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    Not really, 1080 video is just very demanding, especially Quicktime.

    My desktop system often has some problems playing it back and that has a full Core 2 Duo over clocked to 2.8GHz.

    You could try another player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ the decoder on that seems to take a little less horse power on some videos. Not quite sure why though.
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jan 2, 2008
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  3. Zahn1138

    Zahn1138 Notebook Consultant

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    Quicktime is a terrible codec, basically. iTunes is also too resource intensive for simply playing audio files. They're poorly designed (at least for PC).

    Yet another reason I dislike Apple.
     
    Zahn1138, Jan 2, 2008
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  4. Spydc

    Spydc Notebook Guru

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    You guys were right. I saved the quicktime 1080P trailer of Han**** and played it on VLC and it ran perfectly.
     
    Spydc, Jan 2, 2008
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  5. neilnpatel

    neilnpatel Notebook Evangelist

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    get coreavc and play wmv files in wmp , much better
     
    neilnpatel, Jan 3, 2008
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  6. outkastland

    outkastland Notebook Evangelist

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    LOL yup totally the program.
     
    outkastland, Jan 3, 2008
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