On 2010/11/29 12:50, Dan so eloquently wrote:
At 5:07 AM -0800 11/29/2010, Geke wrote:
my Digital Audio (466 MHz G4) has the same problems. Some YouTube
videos don't play smoothly and I can forget HD ones. Downloading them
improves things only slightly
Flash. ug. (been lots of threads on this list about flash too). I've
had some success with this technique: Using Safari, make sure you've
got ClickToFlash installed and an ad blocker. The latter ensures that
your cpu isn't busy with @#$% animated ads. ClickToFlash will ensure
that the youtube flash video is the ONLY one running. If that much
doesn't improve playback, then also try telling the streamer to send you
lower-resolution video. On youtube, do that by adding "&fmt=5" to the url.
YouTube used to have an optional HTML 5 program that might be worth
looking into. You have to be logged in, and it doesn't work with videos
that contain ads. Another thing you might try is to enable the Developer
menu in Safari's preferences and when you want to watch YouTube videos
set the user agent string in the Developer menu to Safari/iPad. That
should deliver the videos in html 5.
Courtesy would be to set the user agent string back to it's original
setting so as not to skew visitor data for developers on other sites.
I'm not familiar with bluray, but isn't HD its main purpose? If so,
your bluray quality would be reduced to LD by playing it on a 720p TV,
I expect.
Blu-ray's main purpose is to get people to re-purchase their videos in
yet-another format. :\
And when that well isn't producing enough (read: when they think they
can get away with it) they will introduce the "Next Big Thing!"
Tina
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