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Originally Posted by TheBang

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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.

Ah. Thanks. Looks like I'm stuffed then! Time to start begging mates for a loan of a laptop...