At 10:41 AM -0700 8/22/2010, Yikes owner wrote:
400mhz Yikes G4 with a 1GB ram with the stock ATI video card.
don't like how it handles you tube and other streaming videos , the
video is very choppy while the sound is fine.
Try adding &fmt=5 to the YouTube url. That tells YouTube to hit you
with a lower resolution version of the video. It often makes things
playable on older machines.
The computer is hooked up to a 6Mps DSL via ethernet.
Choppy video could also be caused by connectivity issues. Run a few
speed tests to make sure your xDSL circuit is performing well.
eg:
<http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest>
Will upgrading my video card to a Radeon 7000 or 9200 take care of
this problem? BTW, I'm not
interested in 3D gaming just smooth streaming video.
Yes, in part, but not necessarily for Flash content. Flash is very
CPU-bound and only uses the GPU of the latest Macs. See Eric's reply.
- Dan.
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