on the topic of laptop graphics...

[bazookaman]

Is the graphics chip in my G3 800 mhz ibook really so bad as to not even display the Bionic Woman trailer w/o stuttering and stopping?

I figured its just old, but i thought i would ask to see if its oldness or something actually wrong with my computer.

[iaJim]

I think the computer is just too slow. There are usually minimum requirements listed with those sites. I know my G4 500 Powerbook is too old and slow to work well.

[MacMagus]

All but the fastest G3s will stutter when playing even half-decent video files made with modern codecs.

[bazookaman]

ah well. I'll just stick to watching videos on my G5...until thats too slow for modern codecs too!

[BigGuynRusty]

G3 has no AltiVec.

BGnR

[Racer X]

bingo. AltiVec was about a 75% speed improvement on encoding video on my B&W G3/450 when I put in a G4/500 zif. Maybe 10% was the extra 50 mhz. The rest was AltiVec.

Decoding is also about that much faster.

[M A V I C]

Yeah, but if you have a good GPU, CPU doesn't have as big of an impact.

[Racer X]

maybe, but my car is bigger than your car.