My system:
AMD x2 3800 @ 2.0Ghz
Mushkin 2x1GB DDR500
MSI x1900xtx
Seagate 7200.10 16mb cache 320gb
SB Audigy (original)
Sony FW900 24" CRT (1920x1200 Resolution)
Win XP sp2 w/ latest drivers
Quicktime 7.1.3
I went to Apple's website and downloaded some 1080p movie trailers, including Shooter and Rescue Dawn. When I ran them in quicktime, they were slightly twitchy - as in, 95% of the trailer played smoothly, but occasionally it would stutter just a bit. I didn't have anything running in the background and the movies were completely downloaded (not streaming).
So, that got me to wondering the following:
* Is something wrong with my computer? Or do I have some kind of bottleneck? Or does quicktime just suck (in which case, what else can play *.mov)?
* If there's nothing wrong, then what kind of rig do you need for smooth 1080p playback?
Before trying this, I had guess my computer was more than enough to handle it, given that it can render - in real time, at > 70FPS - extremely complicated games at 1920x1200. granted, that's done by specialized/parallelized video card hardware, but I had video acceleration enabled in quicktime, so I wouldn't think decoding video at a lower resolution and much lower frame rate (24) could possibly be more complicated...
AMD x2 3800 @ 2.0Ghz
Mushkin 2x1GB DDR500
MSI x1900xtx
Seagate 7200.10 16mb cache 320gb
SB Audigy (original)
Sony FW900 24" CRT (1920x1200 Resolution)
Win XP sp2 w/ latest drivers
Quicktime 7.1.3
I went to Apple's website and downloaded some 1080p movie trailers, including Shooter and Rescue Dawn. When I ran them in quicktime, they were slightly twitchy - as in, 95% of the trailer played smoothly, but occasionally it would stutter just a bit. I didn't have anything running in the background and the movies were completely downloaded (not streaming).
So, that got me to wondering the following:
* Is something wrong with my computer? Or do I have some kind of bottleneck? Or does quicktime just suck (in which case, what else can play *.mov)?
* If there's nothing wrong, then what kind of rig do you need for smooth 1080p playback?
Before trying this, I had guess my computer was more than enough to handle it, given that it can render - in real time, at > 70FPS - extremely complicated games at 1920x1200. granted, that's done by specialized/parallelized video card hardware, but I had video acceleration enabled in quicktime, so I wouldn't think decoding video at a lower resolution and much lower frame rate (24) could possibly be more complicated...