mwg
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When I play TV programs like Lost that I've downloaded in HD from itunes they sometimes jump a bit like its struggling to play it. They work fine in SD and its also fine if I play Blu-Ray discs. This is on my Dell Studio 15 Laptop.
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Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz Processor
4GB Ram
320GB Hard Drive
What do I need to upgrade to sort it? I dont know what the graphics card is, just whatever they put in them as standard. Could it be that needing to be upgraded?
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John
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Do you know what format the ones you download from itunes are?
SD is easy, blu ray will be offloaded to something else, probably the graphics card for decoding.
Are you using itunes to play the downloads?
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mwg
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It says its MPEG-4 Video File (.m4v)
Yeah I'm using itunes to play it through.
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John
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It's 720p video which your laptop is more than capable of, itunes up to date, try playing it in windows media player.
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mwg
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I just tried and it came up with:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.
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John
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You could try downloading a codec pack such as http://cccp-project.net/ I use this and it plays all my videos in media player, the only other thing that might stop it is apple drm, this isn't getting away from te fact that itunes should play them anyway though, I couldn't see anything while looking there.
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mwg
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Tried downloading that and just ended up with a flat cant play this video message so guess that means its itunes only!
Thanks for the help, I'll have to live with it jumping occasionally
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John
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/67909965/m/991005115831
Old post but a couple of suggestions and the guy having problems has a simialr spec.
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Bart
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try playing the video with VLC player. it should play it no problem without any stutters.
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mwg
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quote:
Originally posted by John
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/67909965/m/991005115831
Old post but a couple of suggestions and the guy having problems has a simialr spec.
Yes that sounds very similar problems although mine is limited to the HD stuff only and doesn't occur as often as he seems to indicate it does on his.
I'm getting an external hard drive soon for back ups so thats one way I could try (suggested in that thread) thats not going to cost me any extra seen as though I'm getting it anyway 
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mwg
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
try playing the video with VLC player. it should play it no problem without any stutters.
I will give it ago. Thanks
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mwg
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It wouldn't play with VLC player either
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ssj_kakarot
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download coreAVC its pretty much god when it comes to software decoding of any HD video.
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John
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If it's not playing in vlc or in media player using cccp i'd say it's got some funky quicktime/itunes drm built in.
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drunkenfool
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quote:
Originally posted by John
If it's not playing in vlc or in media player using cccp i'd say it's got some funky quicktime/itunes drm built in.
Ditto, VLC plays pretty much any video file you throw at it.
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noshua
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mplayer with coreAVC and coreAAC should work
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
quote:
Originally posted by John
If it's not playing in vlc or in media player using cccp i'd say it's got some funky quicktime/itunes drm built in.
Ditto, VLC plays pretty much any video file you throw at it.
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