So I purchased a season of a TV show that I couldn’t find in my usual routes. When I try to play the video, it is really choppy. When I check task manager, the CPU usage goes from 0-5% to 100% and the memory usage goes up very little. This machine runs MPEGs and AVIs like a champ. Why are M4Vs such a challenge?
Here are my machines specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2000
Asus motherboard with a 333 FSB
1 G memory (I think it’s PC2700)
It’s not a state of the art machine, but it should handle video playback with out a problem. I’m kind of annoyed. Any suggestions?
It’s a pretty widespread problem, usually more with H.264.
I’ve heard getting ffdshow fixes it for some people.
Apple seems to think there’s nothing wrong with itunes (surprise surpise!), their fixes all reference to DMA problems or readyboost (if your drive is SATA).
Isn’t that wonderful! Unfortunately my computer is old and is IDE. I am upgrading computers this weekend. I need to get the vids i purchased off iTunes to work on a new computer. I’m pretty sure if i log in with my itunes account it will let me download again or play the files that i downloaded on my old computer to my new one. We’ll see what happens.
The movies he downloaded from iTMS are DRM protected VLC and whatever media player that floats your boat will not work unless be buys something to transcode it while stripping the DRM.
No need to redownload just move it over to the new computer (the file) and readd it too itunes (drag n drop) then reauthorize it for that computer in iTunes.
And my apple fanboi obligatory macs ruleass :smash2: