I have some avi files that I ripped some time ago from MY OWN DVDs to take with me while I travel...they play fine on my Dell Inspiron 8600 (yeah, I know, I know...I should not have used the avi format, but I did for whatever reason back then...). Recently though I tried playing them on my PowerBook G4...replay was choppy and in places there was severe pixilation.
Is there an obvious reason for this...and could this reason be processor speed, or is there something else wrong? What codec should I have used, or should I use now?
I have a Dell Inspiron with a 1.6 GHz processor running Windows XP SP3, ~1.3 GHz of RAM...the PowerBook is an early G4 with a 500MHz processor running Mac OS X 10.4.11, ~800MHz of RAM.
I hope you don't consider this to be a DVD ripping question, as it's meant to be a "which codec is a better choice" question, or a "why won't this work?" question. I realize the DVD ripping forums have been dropped, and can certainly understand why...just the fact that I have to even comment on the content of my post shows how very serious the problem is.
Any (constructive) suggestions would be helpful...thanks in advance.
Is there an obvious reason for this...and could this reason be processor speed, or is there something else wrong? What codec should I have used, or should I use now?
I have a Dell Inspiron with a 1.6 GHz processor running Windows XP SP3, ~1.3 GHz of RAM...the PowerBook is an early G4 with a 500MHz processor running Mac OS X 10.4.11, ~800MHz of RAM.
I hope you don't consider this to be a DVD ripping question, as it's meant to be a "which codec is a better choice" question, or a "why won't this work?" question. I realize the DVD ripping forums have been dropped, and can certainly understand why...just the fact that I have to even comment on the content of my post shows how very serious the problem is.
Any (constructive) suggestions would be helpful...thanks in advance.
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