Dan H.264 I believe is the codec that Youtube uses for storing the files on the server, not what plug in it's using to play the files on the web browser.
Stephen Weber On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 9:24 PM -0600 6/15/2009, nestamicky wrote: > > > >G4 Titanium 400Mhz > >Running 10.4 with 768 ram. Fully updated, except for the latest Safari. > > >It's crap on any video site, including Youtube. > > Flash sucks, and it has gotten worse this past year. Ditto for the > more advanced codecs in QuickTime. > > >Now, Dan, would rpm save me here? > > Doubtful. Browser speed is moot here. This is all about the > plug-in's speed - Flash or QuickTime. I think most stuff on YouTube > is Flash but it's moving to H.264? > > > From the hardware point of view, this is about sheer number crunching > speed. These plug-ins use very little memory or disk i/o. They just > need more power with which to rebuild the compressed data frames. > > Some of this crunching can be off-loaded into the graphics processor > (GPU) on the video card. That's what technologies like Quartz > Extreme are ultimately all about. If your machine supports it, make > sure it's enabled. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
