On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote:

> I honestly don't know what everyone complains about with G4s and
> Flash.  It runs nearly flawlessly on both the Quicksilver 933mhz I had
> and the &733mhz Digital Audio Power macs with basically stock
> hardware.

A LOT of Youtube's content is now HD, which is the problem; people connect to a 
yourtube video and it runs like crap because a machine that old is just not 
capable of decoding HD flash video, particularly with the Flash browser plugin.

I can watch Youtube stuff adequately on my 1.67 GHz AlBook, but only by 
downloading the video (in my case with CosmoPod) so I can play the video with 
Quicktime (flash requires the Perian plugin, but so does real life,. it's a 
must-have QT plugin for all mac users <http://perian.org/> )

On my old 1Ghz TiBook even this wouldn't work with anything above 360p HD, 
which is pretty crappy.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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