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.
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@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.
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.
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@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@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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