VLC on an iBook G3

[giantgreengoat]

I am running VLC on an iBook G3 500 with 640mb of RAM. When I view videos the video is choppy. I've used tinker tool and killshadow to cut back on fluff. I've also dropped res and palette, still a bit choppy. Are there any OSX (panther) or VLC tweaks I could employ to improve things? Thank you greatly.

[losergeek]

Funny - I have exactly the same specs and exactly the same problem on my girlfriend's computer and no one has been able to provide me with a suitable answer yet. I tried using older versions (back as far as 0.7) and the stuttering was improved, however I haven't tried any older versions. After posting on other boards I've gotten suggestions of using 3ivx or Ffusion codecs with quicktime instead, but for most of those you need to convert the files because they can't play mp3 audio which is included in most the xvid files out there right now and personally I don't want to have to convert everything I download.

So if anyone has any suggestions I'm interested too.

C

[SuiGeneris]

I am running VLC on an iBook G3 500 with 640mb of RAM. When I view videos the video is choppy. I've used tinker tool and killshadow to cut back on fluff. I've also dropped res and palette, still a bit choppy. Are there any OSX (panther) or VLC tweaks I could employ to improve things? Thank you greatly.

I've run it on a G3 800Mhz and it wasn't brilliant but did play if you switched everything off. No airport either helps, shut all other apps etc. I don't think it'll be 100% though TBH.

[giantgreengoat]

I run without anything else running; I'll try turning off Airport.

[losergeek]

Tried shutting down everything - still no go. This also seems to be more of an issue with me when playing xvid files - the old divx ones aren't as much of a problem. Any suggestions??

[giantgreengoat]

I disabled Airport and ran ShadowKill. I am nearly able to play with no clipping. Right now I am trying to figure out how to get iCook to work and over clock the proc by about 50~100mhz. May help, may not. I tried a slew of media players: Mplayer, Windows Media Player, WMV/Flip, DViX Player and a few others that where too poorly put together to keep on the drive. So far VLC seems to have the most consistant framerate. If I get iCook working and a few others things I'll be posting soon.