On Oct 22, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
I think I am doing something wrong. I have a G4 933, 1.5Gig ram, 10.4.11, and a Geforce Ti 4600 128mb (which is near the top for this machine). I am using an Apple 23" Cinema Display via ADC. I am using 1900x1200 and love the graphics ........ except for internet video. When I play a Youtube or such video on my Powerbook G3 500 Pismo I almost want to say it is faster then my G4. I set the video on YT to 240p on my G4 and it still runs like crap. Am I doing something wrong?
Probably not, I think this is a Flash plugin issue? Your options are limited. It's sad our PPC Macs seem to choke on internet video, and have lost support not only from Adobe, but also from Google, Mozilla, etc.
The final version of Flash plugin for PPC was 10.1.102.64. You can check your version here: <http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/> You can download 10.1.102.64 here: <http://mac.oldapps.com/flash_player.php>
Does the browser brand make a difference?
Probably not. You might try TenFourFox and see what happens? TenFourFox has plugins such as Flash disabled by default, which you can manually enable in the "about:config" window. Type "about:config" into the address field without quotes, and change "tenfourfox.plugins.enabled" from "false" to "true".
YouTube is supposedly migrating to HTML5 video from Flash, and there may be ways to force HTML5 usage instead of Flash, but I'm not sure that will help?
Do my display settings make a difference?
If you were restricted on VRAM it might, for instance, the old G4 Minis with only 32MB VRAM suffer at high resolutions, but I don't think this is your issue since you seemingly have an adequate 128MB GeForce card.
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