Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> stbenge wrote:
> 
>> Can anybody tell me why these problems are occurring? My system is 
>> reasonably fast. My system is composed of a multi-core 2.4ghz CPU, 2gb 
>> RAM, good nVidia card and Windows XP. An animation should run at 
>> full-speed.
> 
> My best guess is that your harddrive isn't fast enough. I see exactly 
> the same problem - animations above a certain size just won't play 
> smoothly.
> 
>> DVDs work just fine.
> 
> DVDs use MPEG-II compression, so there's vastly less data per second to 
> be whisked around.
> 
> Basically it doesn't matter *which* codec you use, just so long as you 
> compress it down to a bitrate your I/O system can handle. [Which, unless 
> your I/O system is especially slow, should be a pretty easy target to hit.]

This explanation makes some sense, though I'm not sure why a compressed 
WMF file performs worse than an uncompressed AVI. Do you know of any 
lightweight AVI->MPEG converters for Windows?

Sam

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