On Mar 20, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > >> However the You Tubes still don't do any good on the slower PPC's, but DVD's >> play super, Go figure. I can watch DVD's on my Wally's in OS 9. > > This has been hashed out in great detail before, but comparing DVD playback > to streaming video from YouTube is like comparing a fish to a bicycle. > > DVD's are encoded for fast playback and (in the case of your Wally) you often > have a specific co-processor to decode the thing in hardware. > > YouTube is compressed much more highly, and there is no hardware help. > > -- > Bruce Is there an application that will buffer a You Tube file as to afford smooth play on the slower processors? It's a PITA to see some funny stuff and then have to run to a faster machine to watch it, even many times the sound is jumpy too.
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