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Originally Posted by votingfloater
(Hands up: I know it's my own fault for having a shitty old Celeron-based nondescript beigebox, but it manages everything else ok-ish. Spot the power user.)
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Basically, the QuickTime streams use H.264, the most advanced video codec, which produces high-quality, small-filesize videos. The trade-off is that it requires much more horsepower to decode than older video codecs. If you're on a PC, you're going to need at least a 1.5-2 GHz CPU to decode the video smoothly. You can't really substitute anything for the raw CPU power needed to decode the video.