Quote Originally Posted by SvenCRen View Post
I ran some HD content on a reletively new Catalyst server with v4 b119, 15,000RPM SCSI drive, X1600 Radeon card on newer MAC Pro and I was very disappointed with its performace. One layer would play back at 25fps somewhat smooth with occasional glitches but add a second and the performance plummetted.

Granded this was stock footage at 1920 x 1080 that I have not tried to recompress but I figured that one layer should be able to play back with no loss at all.

Is this just a matter of how I have to compress the content or is there a larger issue at hand?

Thanks
Scott Riley
scott what codec did you use?

did you use the stuff that came in the box?

if you did it is unlikely to work well.

typically the stock content people ship stuff which is does not play back well even for a single layer.

and with hi-def you have to be very very careful with data rates as well.