On 5/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">cyrille henry</b> <<a href="mailto:cyrille.henry@la-kitchen.fr">cyrille.henry@la-kitchen.fr</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>if the hard drive is a limiting factor, maybe i can use someting faster to store the movie.<br>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).
</blockquote><div><br>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?<br><br>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.
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