I downloaded the 116Mb "Space Shuttle" Pixlet demo from Apple, and I only get 15-17fps, and lots of jerks, on a 1.33Ghz Powerbook. Anyone else had similar experiences?
If you already have Panther installed on your 1 GHz or faster G4 Macintosh, click below to download a 355 MB sample of Pixlet encoded high definition video.
3.1MB/sec should easily be handled by 1.33 G4, I'd think.
It's not the throughput that is the problem, rather, the tax on the CPU for decoding the video. I haven't played around with Pixlet at all, but generally, when you have a codec that is compressing things to an insanely small data rate, you pay for it with the amount of CPU power required to decode the video.
Zool, I thing there was something wrong with the apple example, there's no way it should have been as rubbish as it was - leave it a few days and they'll post a fixed version. It was quite big though - 116Mb.
"If you already have Panther installed on your 1 GHz or faster G4 Macintosh, click below to download a 355 MB sample of Pixlet encoded high definition video."
Zool, I thing there was something wrong with the apple example, there's no way it should have been as rubbish as it was - leave it a few days and they'll post a fixed version. It was quite big though - 116Mb.
Who's Zool... and who's to say that I wouldn't notice an error ridden file. Wanna ask me how much encoding work I've done?
Problematic or not, I'd still like to check out the example movie.
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If you already have Panther installed on your 1 GHz or faster G4 Macintosh, click below to download a 355 MB sample of Pixlet encoded high definition video.
Originally posted by Eugene
What demo is this?
Earlier today there was a link to download a Pixlet-encoded QT .mov. Seems like it was pulled. Here's a screen grab of what was there:
3.1MB/sec should easily be handled by 1.33 G4, I'd think.
Originally posted by scottiB
3.1MB/sec should easily be handled by 1.33 G4, I'd think.
It's not the throughput that is the problem, rather, the tax on the CPU for decoding the video. I haven't played around with Pixlet at all, but generally, when you have a codec that is compressing things to an insanely small data rate, you pay for it with the amount of CPU power required to decode the video.
Originally posted by Chopper3
It was quite big though - 116Mb.
That was probably what was wrong since the text says it shoud be 355MB
Originally posted by JLL
That was probably what was wrong since the text says it shoud be 355MB
the text said 116mb..
Originally posted by Sopphode
the text said 116mb..
It now says 355MB:
"If you already have Panther installed on your 1 GHz or faster G4 Macintosh, click below to download a 355 MB sample of Pixlet encoded high definition video."
Originally posted by Tuttle
Is the link still missing or am I the only one not see where to "click below" ?
text is back... but the link isnt there
Originally posted by Chopper3
Zool, I thing there was something wrong with the apple example, there's no way it should have been as rubbish as it was - leave it a few days and they'll post a fixed version. It was quite big though - 116Mb.
Who's Zool... and who's to say that I wouldn't notice an error ridden file. Wanna ask me how much encoding work I've done?
Problematic or not, I'd still like to check out the example movie.