On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote:
> > I can tell you that youtube is well within reach of both the XO-1 and > 1.5, > > currently (or at least up to build 114), it was running better and faster > on > > the XO-1 rather than on the XO 1.5 due to the presence of Xv support. The > > problem is that I can only have decent performance by not using Flash but > by > > using the Firefox Greasemonkey add-on and the HQTube script: > > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63509 > > I tried to do what you describe -- but that isn't my concept of watching > YouTube. The way I ran it, the HQTube script appeared to download the > entire clip before trying to play that clip -- I prefer to start seeing > a YouTube clip within seconds of clicking on the internet link for it. > > That is configurable by tweaking Gnome Mplayer AFAIK. > Much worse, with the HQTube script installed, an error popup told me the > downloaded clip could not be played because I did not have the Sorenson > Spark codec installed -- Wikipedia says that codec is built-in to Flash, > but I don't know how to acquire it for whatever HQTube tried to execute. > > I haven't tested HQTube script on the Fedora install but on Gentoo it ran buttery smooth. Will check Fedora soon. > > Xv capability now works on both the F11 XO-1.5 and the F11 XO-1 -- but > people posting about Flash claim that "native" Flash needs RGB, whereas > Xv uses YUV -- therefore "native" Flash does not invoke Xv acceleration. > > Except that some people were claiming that you can get the data accelerated from Xv back to do the RGB thingy. I can't be sure on that though. > > mikus > > > p.s. On XO-1.5, latest Flash plugin plus latest Firefox still regularly > gives a "slideshow" for YouTube, but the result is often tolerable. > > My experience exactly. Best regards, Tiago
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