YouTube & Hardware

[Joe Holloway]

For what it's worth, you can opt-in to an HTML5 beta version of
YouTube (I assume it's using WebM encoding) if your browser supports
the technology.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

>From my limited playing around with it, the performance isn't much
better (if any) on my PC than the 64-bit Flash player.  I'm guessing
it's more my inability to figure out how to get decent graphics
drivers configured (if they even exist) more so than the technology
itself.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Jeffrey Watts <jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, YouTube stores it's videos in H.264 and the Flash player is just
> one front end.  I strongly suspect that your DVR isn't using Flash.
> It probably has a hardware H.264 decoder.  It's what the iPad does.
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
> On Friday, July 1, 2011, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
>> On the "flash is just a bad format" thread:  I do note that my DirecTV DVR
>> manages to play YouTube videos full screen without stalling and jerking.
>> Obviously dedicated decoding hardware, the CPU is pretty low-power.
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