Thanks a zillion. Updated flash player and it is now smooth.
On Sep 09, 2008, at 06:10 pm, Donald Hall wrote:
>
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Christopher Icha wrote:
>> I am not happy with the jerky video that I get when on youtube, if I
>> try to view full (24in wide) screen on my G4. The G4 in
>> question is a single processor 1GHz Mirror Drive Door ...
>
> Your problem isn't hardware, it's software. Flash is crap. At least
> it is on a Mac. Adobe and even Macromedia both left the Mac version
> way behind the PC in terms of performance and it's not all that great
> on the PC as it is. This is one of the main reasons why the iPhone
> doesn't have flash support (and subsequently, that's one of the
> reasons why the iPhone was able to load web pages so much faster than
> its competition).
>
> Anyway... there is a beta version of the latest flash player on the
> web somewhere. I don't recall where it's at, but I believe it
> supported PPC systems as well as Intel Macs. If you google around and
> install it, you should see a significant performance increase. This
> version is touted by Adobe as being significantly improved
> performance-
> wise. I think they got the message after Job's refused to let them on
> the iPhone.
>
>
> Alternately, there is a script that you can save as a bookmark and
> load on each YouTube page. When the script runs, it loads a Quicktime
> version of the YouTube video, which should be much higher quality.
> Then you can just zoom in to see it larger. Command-Option-8 to turn
> zooming on, Command-Option-("plus" and "minus") to zoom in/out.
>
> -Donald Hall
>
> >
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