Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>In article <web.3f7d4a89882e39d35115eaaa0[at]news.povray.org> , "tgl"
><tgl### [at] canadacom> wrote:
>
>>  These larger animations have a random jitteriness(?) when played back. It
>> almost seems as if some frames of the animation were missing but they're
>> not.
>
>The frames are "dropped" when playing back the movie because you system
>isn't fast enough to decode all the frames in real-time.  This can either be
>due to processor decoding performance or harddisk data-rate limitations.
>Either way, the only way around this (other than getting a faster system) is
>to use a different codec.  If you have G3 at 500 MHz or more, you can for
>example get one of the free MPEG-2 encoders (encode to VOB!) and then use
>the DVD Player (or QuickTime with the MPEG-2 plugin from Apple) to play it
>back - it will use the accelerated decoding functions on your graphics card
>and that way you should be able to view movies up to 720*576 at 25 fps or
>720*480 at 30 fps, which equal PAL and NTSC DVDs respectively.
>
>If you have a Mac much older than three years, you will more or less have to
>stick to lower resolutions or reduce the framerate...
>
 Thanx for the info, Thorsten but I believe I'm stuck with your final
suggestion!
By the way...How the heck did you and Dave Matthews know I was a MacUser?

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