I have a quad core 2.4ghz with 4g of ram, with only a 6600gt gpu - played without a hiccup

moondigger wrote:
Gochugogi wrote:
Beni wrote:
My dual 2.2ghz with 3 gig ram can't play these clips without serious pauses/sticking, what do you need, a quad core as minimum?

Probably something wrong with your configuration.

Actually, there probably isn't anything wrong with Beni's config. See below.

I just played the helio clip full screen in QT on my 23" Cinema Display and it was smooth and beautiful--not a single hiccup. [...] I'm running a 2004 Apple G4 Duo (1.25GHz x 2) with ATI 9600 & only 2GB RAM.

There's no way in heck a Dual 1.25 G4 could handle those full-res clips without serious stuttering/frame drops. So the H.264 decoding must be offloaded to the ATI 9600 on that box.

I haven't tried it on my MacBook Pro (2.2GHz CoreDuo) but it's never had problems with HD content.

It will have problems with these clips, if the video card doesn't do H.264. A 2.2 GHz CoreDuo doesn't have quite enough power to decode these clips at the full 30 fps.

Speak for yourself, duo 2.2 with 2gigs ram, standard white first gen macbook, and I get quicktime pro and vlc playback smooth, 29 fps constant. All three clips run great.

My 2.66ghz iMac with 2gb ram and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO runs the videos just fine. I am currently running Safari, Adium, iTunes, and VMWare Fusion. No problems at all.

Edit: Oops, I was running it in Quicktime. Not exactly sure, but it looks better in Quicktime than in VLC (but I'm not expert when it comes to video playback!).

Chokes my Athlon XP3000 with 2 gigs ram and older AGP video card (I am not a gamer).

patrickphoto wrote:
moondigger wrote:
It will have problems with these clips, if the video card doesn't do H.264. A 2.2 GHz CoreDuo doesn't have quite enough power to decode these clips at the full 30 fps.

Speak for yourself, duo 2.2 with 2gigs ram, standard white first gen macbook, and I get quicktime pro and vlc playback smooth, 29 fps constant. All three clips run great.

You have a Core 2 Duo. The person I was responding to had an original Core Duo (not a "2"). I stand by my statement -- a 2.2 GHz Core Duo doesn't have quite enough power to decode full 1080p clips like these at the full 30 fps.

My macbook 2.4 ghz with 4 gig ram runs them perfectly in quicktime and vlc.

The Apple Quicktime decoder for Windows isn't very efficient (one might even say poorly designed) which is why it takes a PC powerhouse to play these videos properly. If you try to play any of the 1080p 5DII videos on an older PC, especially one without any kind of hardware acceleration for h.264, you will definitely get bad stuttering. My PC does this and there seems to be some kind of glitch relating to gamma as well (everything looks washed out). When I play the videos through CoreAVC, everything is silky smooth and the gamma is correct. I'm going to try VLC next when I find some free time.

Runs great in my octo MP with dual 8800GT's. Looks way better than my $5k HVX-200.

My system is 4 years old 3Ghz CPU, 1.5 GIG of memory and a 256MB video card and the video is choppy. Lightroom 2 is choppy..etc..etc..etc..

I'm going to buy a 5D Mark II, but I'm already tired of my old system so together with buying the 5D Mark II. I'll be buying a quad core, 4GB of RAM and 512 Nvidia video card with HDMI output. I already need a CPU so might as well buy it along with the Mark II cause I'm going to need it for the HD video.

Canon has pulled the video clips due to high demand crashing their servers.

nathanlake wrote:
Canon has pulled the video clips due to high demand crashing their servers.

The three raw 5DII video clips can still be found from "other" sources. There are also four videos available from DP Review as well.

The videos are fine on my 2.66GHz twin-dual core Mac Pro with 6GB RAM and 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.