virtual dub playback ok..quicktime pro not so great?

[dullrazor]

Just like it says.

I have an uncompressed .avi file about 2gb and when i play it in virtualdub it plays ok.
BUT..
When I play the same file in quicktime pro the video seems sluggish.

Is this because the file is an uncompressed avi? because I want to say it seems sluggish even when comparing playback of mpeg1 files?

thank ya.

[jagabo]

Quicktime under Windows is a very poor media player. It doesn't use any of Windows' video features so the CPU has to do all the work. Forget about it.

[dullrazor]

somehow I knew it would be an answer like this, i appreciate the bad news here jagabo

should i forget about quicktime also for converting avi to h.264? does windows mess this up in quicktime as well?

[jagabo]

From what I hear Apple's h.264 encoder isn't all that good. But I haven't used it myself.

[guns1inger]

Widnows doesn't mess anything in Quicktime - Apple messed up quicktime for Windows by releasing a second-rate piece of garbage. Even on Macs, quicktime is a horrible player. There are far better players around than Quicktime, and far better H264 encoders.

[dullrazor]

and far better H264 encoders.

what would you reccomend guns1inger if i might ask?

[guns1inger]

Anything that uses X264 as the encoder : handbrake, Xvid4PSP, MEGUI etc.