Recent content by Tronman

Just curious, was your old iMovie stuff made on a G4? Or a G5? I know this puts me in the 'black ops helicopter and tin foil hat' brigade, but I'm starting to notice more and more of a trend here-their new stuff works great on their new boxes but disables features/breaks stuff when run on the...

Oh I see. It isn't like a tape based cam where you plug it into the computer, fire up iMovie and press play in the capture screen of the program :-( Yet another reason why I stuck with a tape based camcorder. If the cam takes a dive in the river then I've lost 40 mins of video-with the HDD...

Hi all Just rebooted my Mac after a crash, and suddenly there are two new icons on my desktop- 'network' and 'servers'. I didn't put them there, and it just makes me nuts when the Mac does stuff for me like this. I always know what's up with my MorphOS box, but not so the Mac. It does...

I am curious what you need to do with this cam which requires the (typically inferior) bundled software to be used? I checked and it isn't High Def so you don't need any special codecs. Have you tried the iMovie software which comes with your Mac? I've owned a JVC camcorder and the bundled...

Hi all I did a search but didn't find quite this issue. I'm running a Quicksilver G4, with GigaDesigns 1.6GHz single G4 upgrade. 512MB RAM, nVidia GF6200 256MB video card. I can do video all day or play games and it is rock solid. UT2003 is not a problem. But as soon as I hit a web page...

Well maybe I'll upgrade it to the G4, when one comes along at a reasonable price. I'm pretty happy with it overall, and it cost me a total of $56 with the new keyboard I had to buy :-) That was what was wrong with it, why it wouldn't boot. I could sell my Lombard and use that money for most...

Hi all I've got a Powerbook G3, the first model with USB and firewire, the Pismo model. On my Quicksilver I can plug in my Panasonic PV-GS500 firewire video camera and it just works fine in iChat AV. However on this machine it says 'this computer does not support video conferencing'. If I...

Well I did kinda know I was getting lucky just to be able to watch 720p on this machine, and it does look real good. However nVidia mentions on their spec sheet that the 6200 series cards have hardware acceleration for HD video, so I kinda wonder if the Mac is taking advantage of that. I am...

I just bought a Giga-Designs 1.54GHz single G4 upgrade, they're $259 new, and the 1.4Ghz version can be had for $229. Very much worth it! Photoshop CS2 now runs great. Plus the upgrade can go with you if you decide to get a prettier G4 such as a Quicksilver, with the faster 133MHz bus...

Update: My Mac can do 720p HD video, I removed the 2x256meg RAM that the Mac was seeing as PC100 (even tho it is Micron PC133 2-2-2 on the label) and put in one 512MB stick of PC1333 3-3-3 RAM from Ramdirect.com. Curiously, although my 'system' memory test in Xbench was faster, the 'stream'...

I have a panasonic PV-GS500 video camera, it just worked as a webcam with iChat when I plugged it in-I didn't have to fiddle around at all. I'm thinking most modern camcorders can do this. And standard def ones are cheap now, around $250 new for one good enough for a webcam. Used even...

My kids can't kill their eMac either. It's kind of a blobby little spud, but shaped so they can't spill stuff into it-it is a very bullet proof kid's machine!

I have a Quicksilver with nVidia GF6200 graphics, 512MB RAM and a 1.52GHz Gigadesigns G4 single CPU. It can't play HD video, and I'm bummed. On the PeeCee side there are all sorts of hardware tweaking utilities but I don't know of any for the Mac. It seems like 1.5Ghz of G4 could play HD...

I have a used CPU card, so no factory CD. However, several makers used to have this patch on their sites but for some reason, took it down. However Fastmac has the patch, so I got it from there. Problem solved. Thanks though!

I almost forgot to mention, the drive which held this died so I lost it :-(