I understand that more content is being posted in HD but most if not all of what I watch has the option to dial it down a bit to say 360p and it runs fine. I think it might be partly people forgetting these machines are several years old because they are still so capable at everything else that sometimes you forget you are using an older machine.
I have also heard that most of the problem with flash on PPC has more to do with the PPC implementation of Flash being horribly written and has more to do with the mediocre effort of an Adobe software developer then the actual hardware. I am not a programmer so I could not really make an informed decision on that one. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: > >> I honestly don't know what everyone complains about with G4s and >> Flash. It runs nearly flawlessly on both the Quicksilver 933mhz I had >> and the &733mhz Digital Audio Power macs with basically stock >> hardware. > > A LOT of Youtube's content is now HD, which is the problem; people connect to > a yourtube video and it runs like crap because a machine that old is just not > capable of decoding HD flash video, particularly with the Flash browser > plugin. > > I can watch Youtube stuff adequately on my 1.67 GHz AlBook, but only by > downloading the video (in my case with CosmoPod) so I can play the video with > Quicktime (flash requires the Perian plugin, but so does real life,. it's a > must-have QT plugin for all mac users <http://perian.org/> ) > > On my old 1Ghz TiBook even this wouldn't work with anything above 360p HD, > which is pretty crappy. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
