Hexidecimal Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I've searched around for the best bet with Video Playback, the only things I've had any luck with is VLC. Though I only get reasonable rates if im in original size, I'm just looking for something that I can play video fullscreen with, on my Geforce 2, it'd be a pain to switch over to my Ubuntu install everytime I have the urge to fire up a good episode of Firefly, or Arrested Development or M*A*S*H. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
denied Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I've had decent luck with mplayer-osx86 , handles full screen pretty well and the interface is a whole lot better than VLC. And MediaCentral is very good for full-screen watching (also just a cool program). I don't get dropped frames until I try to play high-res clips. I still can't see a 720p transport stream without skips, but normal downloaded movies/tv shows play fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/#findComment-97557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subedai Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 2d acceleration helps a truckload, have you tried the hacked nvidia drivers? If they arent helping im guessing something with full qe/cl support would improve playback immensely. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/#findComment-97656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 CI/QE are needed for DVD playback... or else you can play it for a while and will just close... VLC by the way is one pretty good player for me, knowing it from linux.. Although I'm gonna try the other two above, cause they look pretty good EDITED: 19/04/2006 VLC fro me... by far.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/#findComment-97717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublej Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 CI/QE are needed for DVD playback... or else you can play it for a while and will just close... VLC by the way is one pretty good player for me, knowing it from linux.. Although I'm gonna try the other two above, cause they look pretty goodEDITED: 19/04/2006 VLC fro me... by far.. Actually you just need to download the vlc player that is for powerpc and you should be able to play dvd's. The intel version crashes. my version is 0.8.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/#findComment-116178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zu1u Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 maybe this will help http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=17199 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15212-video-playback/#findComment-116214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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