wittenmeyer
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Hello All,
Believe me, I have tried to google my issue and do many different searches on this forum. It seems no one has my exact problem.
I bought from a friend of mine this Quicksilver with a Giga Designs 1.8 GHz upgrade CPU (G4), 1 GB of RAM, two hard drives, DVD burner, and an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card with 128 MB of DDR RAM. It is running OS X 10.5.2 with the graphics update that was put out last night. I bought it because I was getting tired of having to run two computers (linux and Windows 2000) to do what ONE Mac can do, SAFELY, and I'm on a budget.
The issue is with Apple DVD Player 5.0.1 only. Everything else works fine, except for VLC (which stutters even worse, locking up the computer and forcing a reboot). What happens is that DVD Player works fine when I'm watching movies without captions and subtitles. It works with captions (white text on black background). It will stutter badly (video- and sound-wise) when playing with subtitles and not show them properly. I use either one that is available because I am deaf. The graphics update does not appear to be the problem because it has been happening since before that. The DVD menus (the ones that let you pick a scene, watch bonus footage, set features, etc.) also stutter.
I don't know what to do here... Thanks in advance for any info provided.
Nonetheless, I'm glad to be back in the Mac world after an 8-year absence. My last Mac was a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 with an upgrade processor and OS 8 (couldn't run OS 9). I still have it as a museum piece. I spent the eight years in the linux world, only using a windows box to do multimedia stuff that the linux box couldn't do.
Wittenmeyer
Believe me, I have tried to google my issue and do many different searches on this forum. It seems no one has my exact problem.
I bought from a friend of mine this Quicksilver with a Giga Designs 1.8 GHz upgrade CPU (G4), 1 GB of RAM, two hard drives, DVD burner, and an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card with 128 MB of DDR RAM. It is running OS X 10.5.2 with the graphics update that was put out last night. I bought it because I was getting tired of having to run two computers (linux and Windows 2000) to do what ONE Mac can do, SAFELY, and I'm on a budget.
The issue is with Apple DVD Player 5.0.1 only. Everything else works fine, except for VLC (which stutters even worse, locking up the computer and forcing a reboot). What happens is that DVD Player works fine when I'm watching movies without captions and subtitles. It works with captions (white text on black background). It will stutter badly (video- and sound-wise) when playing with subtitles and not show them properly. I use either one that is available because I am deaf. The graphics update does not appear to be the problem because it has been happening since before that. The DVD menus (the ones that let you pick a scene, watch bonus footage, set features, etc.) also stutter.
I don't know what to do here... Thanks in advance for any info provided.
Nonetheless, I'm glad to be back in the Mac world after an 8-year absence. My last Mac was a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 with an upgrade processor and OS 8 (couldn't run OS 9). I still have it as a museum piece. I spent the eight years in the linux world, only using a windows box to do multimedia stuff that the linux box couldn't do.
Wittenmeyer
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