On 5/19/07, cyrille henry cyrille.henry@la-kitchen.fr wrote:
if the hard drive is a limiting factor, maybe i can use someting faster to store the movie. a fast usbflash could be faster (osx monitor tells me that the i read the HD at maximum 4Mb/s, while fast flash usbstick can be read at 30 Mb/s).
No matter how fast you played back the movie the hard disk only moved 4 MB per second? What about playing multiple movies or an uncompressed one?
That could be a hard disk problem. I have seen drives that get too hot only move about that speed. In my experience this was with large (100+ GB) transfers and the drive would move 40 MB/sec for the first few GB and then slow to 1/10 that speed. Stopping the transfer for ten minutes and letting the drive cool would resume the full speed transfer for a few minutes then slow down again.