Too Much For Mac
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Hi, Long standing Mac user in need of some advice. Some background: Machine: Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Core, ATI Radeon 4870 512MB, 3GB RAM, Lion installed. The Mac is permanently connected to a Samsung 40 inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution. The problem: I've been trying to play various 1080p mkv files and have been unable to do so without obvious stuttering due to lost frames. Apps I've tried: VLC, adjusted various options as per some searches on the subject in Google. No noticeable improvement.
Plex, tried turning on hardware acceleration. No noticeable improvement. XMBC, again tried turning on hardware acceleration, no change. What's frustrating is that when playing the files the CPU is barely doing anything so it's not like the machine is visibly struggling to keep up. So I'm throwing this out to you guys for some advice, has anyone experienced this before on a machine of similar spec? If it's not CPU that's the bottleneck what else could it be, would more RAM or a different Graphics card help? As a last resort would Mountain Lion bring anything to the table here?
Kind of looking forward to the 'challenge' of upgrading if so. Or perhaps I'm just asking too much for a 7 year old Mac to be able to play 1080p? All advice and feedback appreciated!! I have a mac pro 1,1 just as you do, specs can be seen in my signature. You should have ZERO issues playing anything in HD.
I do it on my 23' apple cinema display and it handles HD absolutely perfectly on youtube or any downloaded video files also play perfectly in HD using VLC or Quicktime. If I were to guess, it sounds like a graphics card problem. But thats purely a guess.
I could play 1080P video on the old card that came in this and that was a low end ATi $50 4650 (I think?) card that sucked badly. Could also be a codec problem. 3GB ram is a bit low, but it shouldn't effect the ability to play back HD video at all being that low. Hi, Long standing Mac user in need of some advice.
Some background: Machine: Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Core, ATI Radeon 4870 512MB, 3GB RAM, Lion installed. The Mac is permanently connected to a Samsung 40 inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution. The problem: I've been trying to play various 1080p mkv files and have been unable to do so without obvious stuttering due to lost frames. Apps I've tried: VLC, adjusted various options as per some searches on the subject in Google. No noticeable improvement.
Plex, tried turning on hardware acceleration. No noticeable improvement. XMBC, again tried turning on hardware acceleration, no change. What's frustrating is that when playing the files the CPU is barely doing anything so it's not like the machine is visibly struggling to keep up. So I'm throwing this out to you guys for some advice, has anyone experienced this before on a machine of similar spec? If it's not CPU that's the bottleneck what else could it be, would more RAM or a different Graphics card help? As a last resort would Mountain Lion bring anything to the table here?
How Much For Mac Pro
Kind of looking forward to the 'challenge' of upgrading if so. Or perhaps I'm just asking too much for a 7 year old Mac to be able to play 1080p?
All advice and feedback appreciated!! Click to expand.Ok tried watching a couple of Apple trailers at 1080p, Planes (WTF?!) and Carrrie (Scary!) and both exhibited the same stutter every couple of seconds, this time when using Quicktime. Please note this is with all other apps closed. I monitored memory usage and there's always been at least 1GB free when watching anything in VLC, Quicktime or Plex so it doesn't feel like that's the problem either. Gut instinct is that maybe my graphics card is just not up to the job. So on that note can anyone recommend a card for my machine that won't break the bank but will give me a noticeable performance boost? Also - is there any way to observe GPU utilisation to verify that it is the card that's responsible?
Thanks all for you help on this. Hi, Long standing Mac user in need of some advice. Some background: Machine: Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Core, ATI Radeon 4870 512MB, 3GB RAM, Lion installed. The Mac is permanently connected to a Samsung 40 inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution. The problem: I've been trying to play various 1080p mkv files and have been unable to do so without obvious stuttering due to lost frames.
Apps I've tried: VLC, adjusted various options as per some searches on the subject in Google. No noticeable improvement.
Plex, tried turning on hardware acceleration. No noticeable improvement. XMBC, again tried turning on hardware acceleration, no change. What's frustrating is that when playing the files the CPU is barely doing anything so it's not like the machine is visibly struggling to keep up. So I'm throwing this out to you guys for some advice, has anyone experienced this before on a machine of similar spec?
If it's not CPU that's the bottleneck what else could it be, would more RAM or a different Graphics card help? As a last resort would Mountain Lion bring anything to the table here? Kind of looking forward to the 'challenge' of upgrading if so. Or perhaps I'm just asking too much for a 7 year old Mac to be able to play 1080p?
All advice and feedback appreciated!! Click to expand.My MP1,1 with x5355, 7300GT, and 12GB could not playback actual 1080P streams without shuttering terribly.
It could scale streams to 1080p with no trouble. And some highly compressible streams played OK - but as soon as it got heavy at all, boom - shutters and long delays. Youtubes were almost never a go at 1080p. The best it could do in most formats was 720p and even then there were occasional but somewhat rare, shutters and delays.
I wonder what the difference between our systems was? Click to expand.Yeah, I have VLC set to auto-inform and I mostly always update.
You guys are probably right about the software being the main culprit tho. It got considerably better with 10.7.5 over 10.6.8 But still it stuttered so I just threw a card at it. I paid some ridiculous price for a reference 8800GT and now everything is smooth. My internet is 120Mb/s so that's all good. The 8800GT may end up costing me tho. I mean to test it I got a bunch of games and now I'm somewhat hooked on pretty CG games. So now I'm thinking of something with some real speed behind it.
Like the GTX680 Dang it! Although with my current monitor being 1920x1080 native, the 8800GT plays just about all games fast enough.