On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote:
I too use an eMac as my daily machine. It's the 1.25Ghz G4, has 2GB of
RAM. Everything else is standard (40GB disk, Radeon 9200 32MB).
If I want to play YouTube films on this machine, I need to select 360p
or 240p. In case of 360p I need to let it load the entire film before
playing, if I am to get a smooth framerate.
However, since YouTube is full of ads, I somtimes get an unacceptable
framerate because of one of the ads being an animated ad. To fix it, I
installed an ad-block extension to Safari to give some CPU time back
to the films instead of the ads.
Try FireFox with the Video Download Helper extension. The "Medium"
resolution download gives you a .mp4 file which you can play in
QuickTime Player. I do this on my 2GB iMac to avoid loading the
Flash plugin at all.
Other bonuses:
* you have an offline copy so you can watch it without Internet access
* you have a permanent copy in case it gets taken down
* you can play the movie without a Web browser running at all
* the Play/Pause key works
* you can go frame-by-frame
* you can double the dimensions of the movie
* you can make the movie any size and arrange it so you can see it
while you work on something else
* you don't have to worry about YouTube's player becoming even more
annoying
* you're not seeing YouTube users' comments
Josh
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