H.264 Crashing PC

[mroom]

Having an issue with a H.264 encoded QT randomly crashing ProTools on a XP based system.....any suggestions





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[minister]

welcome...

i see this is your first post.


at this time there is no graphic card hardware acceleration for this fancy Apple codec on a PC. it's very CPU dependent. apple, wth its IBM CPUs, are a designed for Apple Quicktime 7 H.264.

basics : in order to play "Standard/internet definition" content 852x480 (480p) video at 24-30 frames per second you will need a 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4 or faster Macintosh computer with 128MB of RAM and a 64MB video card. if you are a PC user you need a 2.8GHz Pentium CPU or faster, at least 256MB of RAM and a 64MB graphic card.

for High-def 720P 1280x720 video at 24-30 frames per second you'll need 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 or faster with at least 256MB of memory and a 64MB graphic card. Windows users need Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon or faster CPU, at least 1GB of RAM and a 64MB card.

Full High-Def 1920x1080 (1080p) video at 24-30 FPS you will need a MAC machine only. You actually need dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 or faster computer with at least 512MB of RAM and a 128MB or greater video card.

try Microsoft's own WMV-HD content at 1080 P.

[jimlongo]

Having an issue with a H.264 encoded QT randomly crashing ProTools on a XP based system.....any suggestions

If you have QTPro then open and Export the video as something less demanding. That is smaller size and lower datarate. For instance 360x240 or similar and 1000kbps.

How are you displaying the video track? On your computer monitor or an external video monitor.