Thread: Video problems...

hey guys, I've got a slight problem here....

I've got a 1080p video and its about 10.3 gigs in size

Now, when I play the film, the video is laggy...the framerate isn't matching the audio..im assuming because of its massive file size or resolution.

Anyways, if you guys could help me please do

I've tried watching it in divx which makes it even worse, on windows media player the audio is fine but the video lags...

HD video requires fairly beefy hardware
(H.264 is very processor intensive)
what's your specs?

Yeah, PCs (at least most of them) don't have H.264 hardware, so playing HD H.264 videos is difficult for them. DivX is terrible, Quicktime will still be the best. I recommend Handbraking it to half that size.

Is it a DivX encoding? Try reencoding it with iTunes or Handbrake (or anything else that uses FFMpeg)

My specs aren't amazing:

P4 3.0 ghz

1 gigabyte ddr ram

ati x850 pro 256mb agp 8x (not pci express)

soundblaster 5.1



How can I resize the video to 720p or something similar?

the file is 10 gigs so im sure it would take ages to convert to 720p....

The reason I want it in 720p is cause im going to connect my 720p tv to my pc to see the movie with, not my little monitor.

Thanks again guys!

It shouldn't take very long with those specs. Handbrake should be able to do it in only a few hours. Download it and let it run, use the AppleTV default settings, that would probably be the right size.

Cool, i will give it a shot...i tried this other program called converthq but its very limited in its option unless you buy, and it crashed while i was converting, i hope Handbrake works better

thanks!

download handbrake, and load the video

important thing, is use mpeg4 (XviD), rather than AVC (H.264)
This will considerably lower the performace hit when playing the film

Can I suggest XviD video with AC3 audio in an AVI container (will give you the best compatibility)