Re: [G3-5]Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-17 Thread Nestamicky
On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:01 PM, MaGioZal wrote: On 6/16/09 1:28 AM, Po-en Tsai at poen.t...@gmail.com wrote: Or, like me, I would switch onto my Panther 10.3 partition, running Firefox 2.04 to watch anything Flash based. It seems to work for me, and Youtube works fine like that.

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread nestamicky
Stephen Weber wrote: I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a computer with a processor better than a G3 or a early G4. It's because flash is a CPU hog. Well that's fine, but my Pismo 400 runs Youtube well, way, better than the Ti G4. Stephen Weber On Mon, Jun

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Po-en Tsai
On 16/06/2009, at 3:24 PM, nestamicky wrote: Thanks for reading. It's my G4 Titanium 400Mhz. It's crap on any video site, including Youtube. Trusty Pismo was not this horrible. Now, Dan, would rpm save me here? I'm using both the latest---non rpm--version of FF and Safari 3.x. Horrible

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:44 PM, nestamicky wrote: Well that's fine, but my Pismo 400 runs Youtube well, way, better than the Ti G4. Have you tried enabling Quartz Extreme on the TiBook? If not, it might be worth a try, using PCI Extreme 3.1 from MacUpdate. It works fine under 10.4.11 on

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread nestamicky
Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Weber wrote: I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a computer with a processor better than a G3 or a early G4. It's because flash is a CPU hog. I've had some Pentium III PC laptops that were

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:52 PM, nestamicky wrote: I would think, being completely drunk, that a 1.58 ghz machine would beat a P3 machine. I may have misstated the PIII speed, I could never quite figure it out? It's a Compaq Presario 1710 with a 1GHz CPU, and sometimes it seemed to report

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread nestamicky
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:24 PM, nestamickynestami...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reading. It's my G4 Titanium 400Mhz. It's crap on any video site, including Youtube. Trusty Pismo was not this horrible. Now, Dan, would rpm save me here? I'm using both the

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Dan
At 5:52 AM -0500 6/16/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:52 PM, nestamicky wrote: I would think, being completely drunk, that a 1.58 ghz machine would beat a P3 machine. Adobe put a lot of work into making Flash look great under Windoze. I think they've barely given it a

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Dan
At 9:24 PM -0600 6/15/2009, nestamicky wrote: G4 Titanium 400Mhz Running 10.4 with 768 ram. Fully updated, except for the latest Safari. It's crap on any video site, including Youtube. Flash sucks, and it has gotten worse this past year. Ditto for the more advanced codecs in QuickTime. Now,

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Stephen Weber
Dan H.264 I believe is the codec that Youtube uses for storing the files on the server, not what plug in it's using to play the files on the web browser. Stephen Weber On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:24 PM -0600 6/15/2009, nestamicky wrote: G4 Titanium

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, nestamickynestami...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen Weber wrote: I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too.  You  need a computer with a processor better than a  G3 or a early G4.  It's because flash is a CPU hog. Well that's fine, but my Pismo 400

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Baker
fast on the MacBook and will even improve once I get a new Airport Express or Extreme base station. --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Re: [G3-5]Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-16 Thread MaGioZal
On 6/16/09 1:28 AM, Po-en Tsai at poen.t...@gmail.com wrote: Or, like me, I would switch onto my Panther 10.3 partition, running Firefox 2.04 to watch anything Flash based. It seems to work for me, and Youtube works fine like that. Upgrading ram may help, with my iMac, I had 512mb ram, but

Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread nestamicky
Thanks for reading. It's my G4 Titanium 400Mhz. It's crap on any video site, including Youtube. Trusty Pismo was not this horrible. Now, Dan, would rpm save me here? I'm using both the latest---non rpm--version of FF and Safari 3.x. Horrible video, and by that is meant; very jerky. Running

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread Stephen Weber
I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a computer with a processor better than a G3 or a early G4. It's because flash is a CPU hog. Stephen Weber On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:24 PM, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reading. It's my G4 Titanium

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Weber wrote: I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a computer with a processor better than a G3 or a early G4. It's because flash is a CPU hog. I've had some Pentium III PC laptops that were equivalent MHz to G3 and

Re: [G3-5]Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread MaGioZal
On 6/16/09 1:08 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio at fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming you need to stick with this machine my first suggestion is to max the RAM. You could also try adjusting caching if at all possible. You may also have virtual memory turned on which I believe may account

Re: [G3-5]Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM, MaGioZalmagio...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/16/09 1:08 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio at fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming you need to stick with this machine my first suggestion is to max the RAM. You could also try adjusting caching if at all possible.

Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread M. Hammad
Good. I just tried to make a few copies. Already failed 2 out of 3. Lots of wasted media. Dual-layer is a real pain. Mohamad On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Stephen Weber wrote: I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a computer with a processor better than a G3

Re: [G3-5]Re: Horrible, horrible, horrible video

2009-06-15 Thread MaGioZal
On 6/16/09 2:46 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio at fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Because you fully download before playing I assume your connection is perhaps dial-up. No, it isn't -- it's a slow, 256kbps cable-modem connection... Will the machine accept a full Gig of RAM? Close to this --