Can anybody play this?

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mattyjmattyj
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
This link sends you to a HD version of the new theatrical Halo 2 trailer in wmv format. I have a Dual 1Ghz DDR with a Gig of RAM and a GF4Ti, I can't run this trailer at all, it loads up, but the fps is extremely low, I'm not even talking 1fps, it updates about 10 times over the 30 second period.



To my knowledge only WMP9 can play WMV files, at least on the mac. My question is, is it the hardware that is limiting playback of this trailer or is it WMP9? My feeling is that it's a little bit of both, afterall the iMac rev.a I had couldn't play back "Large" size movie trailers from apple.com at 25fps, more like 8fps. Can any of you guys run it?



From the lower res version of this trailer Halo 2 looks as though it's going to look pretty good.

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  • Reply 1 of 16
    jeremiah richjeremiah rich Posts: 853member
    Downloading it right now. As far as WMP being the only program to play WMV's, I think Mplayer will play some select files as well, but correct me if I am wrong.
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  • Reply 2 of 16
    jeremiah richjeremiah rich Posts: 853member
    K. Downloaded it and opened in WMplayer. Same problem you described, and it will not open with Mplayer. Strange.
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  • Reply 3 of 16
    mattyjmattyj Posts: 898member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jeremiah Rich

    K. Downloaded it and opened in WMplayer. Same problem you described, and it will not open with Mplayer. Strange.



    Just out of interest what mac are you using?
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  • Reply 4 of 16
    jeremiah richjeremiah rich Posts: 853member
    See the sig...



    Quicksilver G4/867 mhz 640 ram, 2 250 gig and 1 80 gig harddrive, Geforce4 TI 4600.
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  • Reply 5 of 16
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    What spec peecee does it expect? Anybody successfully run it on Win?



    Might be one of the windows only codecs built into WMP9.
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  • Reply 6 of 16
    mattyjmattyj Posts: 898member
    I was going to test it on a freinds PC, an Athlon 3200 sysem with a Radeon 9800 pro, but he's gone on holiday.



    If it was a windows specific codec, wouldn't it not be able to play at all on mac? I wonder if anyone with a G5 can play this thing.
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  • Reply 7 of 16
    a10t2a10t2 Posts: 191member
    In WMP 8 under XP it plays at full framerate but the video quality is horrible. This is with a 2.5 GHz P4.



    Downloaded WMP 9 and it looks beautiful but skips about every other frame.



    OK, I guess this PC is using the motherboard graphics (Intel 82865G) but my thinking is a P4 or G5 would be the minimum for full-quality playback.



    Oh, and I can't wait for this game.
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  • Reply 8 of 16
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    yep video is rock solid & smooth at 60+ fps

    im on an old prototyped dual core G5 3.0ghz

    with 8gb ram
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  • Reply 9 of 16
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Dual 2 Ghz:

    Window itty-bitty small and it still choppy using VERY little processor power.

    Are you sure this is a good file? It says the bitrate is 10Mbps yet the file is only 50MB?



    BTW, I still have my CPU monitor from OS 10.2.9 so it is easy to see. 8) Most of the time I'm not using half CPU power.



    EDIT: Just saw what it was supposed to be like. Yea, something is flipped out and I think it is the Windows Media Player application.
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  • Reply 10 of 16
    hhoganhhogan Posts: 117member
    Toshiba P20 notebook: P4 H-T 3.2 GHz, 512 megs of ram and its pretty choppy at times with WMP9



    Guessing I need more ram :P
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  • Reply 11 of 16
    mattyjmattyj Posts: 898member
    So basically nothing can play this thing? That's ridiculous, I thought it would be the mac version of WMP9 not being efficient, but it seems that not even windows users can play it properly.



    I'm beginning to think only a 3.4Ghz P4 Prescott or above can play this thing, those chips are supposed to have exceptional WMP decoding speeds.
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  • Reply 12 of 16
    hhoganhhogan Posts: 117member
    Upgraded to 1.25 GB of ram in the Toshiba and I can basically play it now. Some scenes are choppy, so it isn't completely smooth.



    Going to try on my Athlon XP system Sunday when one of my new monitors arrive.
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  • Reply 13 of 16
    mattyjmattyj Posts: 898member
    I played it on a friend's 3200 Athlon which had 1.5GB DDR400 and a Radeon 9800 pro, it played fine, but another friend's Dual Athlon 2400, 2GB RAM with nVidia Quaddro FX3000 thingy couldn't even play it completely smooth... Bit ridiculous if you ask me.
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  • Reply 14 of 16
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Just use the QT version that Ebby included in his post. I'm sure that QT is optimized well enough for the Mac platform.
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  • Reply 15 of 16
    mattyjmattyj Posts: 898member
    Placebo that wasn't the point of this thread.
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  • Reply 16 of 16
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    the video worked fine on the family's 2 hz dell a little choppy, but that is the video card, onboard 32 mb video doesnt like hd...
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