ive got a pb 1ghz, 768mb ram, running 10.4.6.
movies are h264 encoded video with 5.1 he-aac sound (encoded with nero).
most of the time the movies are viewable with vlc, however sometimes vlc crashes and forwarding is also impossible.
some days ago i found the new mplayer 1.0pre8rc5 (universal binary) which plays all h264 very smooth and with about 90 % cpu usage, even seeking was possible.
unfortunately the official mplayer site is not very clear about changelogs but as i understand mplayer also uses ffmpeg for h264 decoding.
are vlc and mplayer using different versions of ffmpeg or different libraries for aac decoding?