Poor Movie Performance, 10.4.9, Intel Mac and syslogd

[Timothy England]

I have recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz. I have many large
presentations with many movies in them, mostly quicktime MP4. They all use
to open fine in PowerPoint X. Now, they take 10 times as long to open, and
when they are played, they pause between slides, and the movies stutter
badly. I check the application viewer, and I see PowerPoint running at
115%. Also, syslogd suddenly starts taking 65% of the CPU. I have tried
un-installing and re-installing Office, even using remove office, and I have
also tried PowerPoint 2004, which is actually worse if you can believe it.
This happens on three machines identically with multiple files. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tim England
Sarcos Research
SLC, UT

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Timothy,

Have you installed all of the PowerPoint 2004 updates? (From the Help menu
choose Check for Updates). The latest batch of updates should have improved
this situation.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I have recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz. I have many large
presentations with many movies in them, mostly quicktime MP4. They all use
to open fine in PowerPoint X. Now, they take 10 times as long to open, and
when they are played, they pause between slides, and the movies stutter
badly. I check the application viewer, and I see PowerPoint running at
115%. Also, syslogd suddenly starts taking 65% of the CPU. I have tried
un-installing and re-installing Office, even using remove office, and I have
also tried PowerPoint 2004, which is actually worse if you can believe it.
This happens on three machines identically with multiple files. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tim England
Sarcos Research
SLC, UT

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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