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Why Does Video Look So Crappy?

post #1 of 9
8/16/05 at 2:53am
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On my new powerbook g4 15" 1.67; the video quality is extremely crappy.

Whether it's a DVD or the cinematics for "Risk" (lol), the video is just blurry and slow. Is this a known problem, or is there something wrong with my computer?
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post #2 of 9
8/16/05 at 3:19am
Define "crappy".
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post #3 of 9
8/16/05 at 11:29am
that is odd, things r sharp and crisp on my iBook, and u have a better screen than i have! what kind of software r u using for DVDs? DVD player? VLC? also, r u using any divx or mpeg4 video formats,and if so which player?
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post #4 of 9
8/16/05 at 11:45am
Call Apple tech support (some of the best out there) and see what they can do for you. They should be able to help you troubleshoot, and if they cant fix, they may be able to replace it. Worth a shot, ehhh???? 1-800-MY APPLE
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post #5 of 9
8/16/05 at 3:00pm
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I'm using the bundled DVD player for DVDs...

When I watch a video in Quicktime, everything is beautiful. But, anything that would require the full screen is slow and blurry. From a distance, it would look fine. Considering Macs are supposed to be the best for multimedia, though, it's disappointing up close.
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post #6 of 9
8/16/05 at 7:34pm
I don't know about slow, but when you take video and make it full screen you're making the video bigger which will make it seem blurry to some people. Also, digital video will have compression artifacts in it. If you're sensitive to them they'll annoy the hell out of you when you watch video on a high resolution screen. On a TV they generally disappear.
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post #7 of 9
8/16/05 at 8:18pm
But he mentioned that he was trying to watch a DVD. There's definitely something not right, be it your video card or something with OSX... I'd do what people have already suggested: call Apple!
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post #8 of 9
8/17/05 at 3:19am
hmm...any chance the DVDs are copies? a la 8.5GB>4.7GB? take one 8.5GB movie that's longer in duration, reduce it to fit on your run of the mill DVD-R and u may end up w/ artifacts. if memory serves me right, most movies don't do so well having the main feature reduced to less than ~60%. this could become exagerated if per chance one were watching a movie that has been pirated, by someone who wanted to get their long movie onto a 4.7GB disk (i.e.-for the sake of distribution) when it should only be appropriate for dual layer. as noted already whatever artifacts u might have in a digital file or on a reduced DVD will be more apparent on a larger/higher res screen.
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post #9 of 9
8/17/05 at 4:51am
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Originally Posted by Redmumba
But he mentioned that he was trying to watch a DVD. There's definitely something not right, be it your video card or something with OSX... I'd do what people have already suggested: call Apple!

Depending on how bad it really is that doesn't mean anything. I see artifacting like crazy when I watch a DVD on a computer.
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