On 5/20/2014 8:54 AM, scott wrote:
>> I tried http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNdx2hs0n4 in both Chrome and
>> IE and
>> couldn't see the difference, but my work machine is a 4 core, and the
>> bandwidth
>> is pretty good.
>>
>> I usually think of clunky video being bandwidth related, rather than
>> codec
>> speed.
>
> IME it's the other way round with YouTube, you need a fast-ish machine
> to playback full-screen smoothly. If you've got slow bandwidth then it
> just takes a long time to start, then stops randomly or just plays in a
> low resolution, but when it does play it's smooth if you've got a fast
> machine.
I just hate flash in general. Youtube refuses to use anything else, and 
now.. they banned the SL viewer for playback, which is using flash, and 
it using the same base code as Chrome? or, what's the other one? In any 
case, no reason for it, except that its not listed in their "compatible" 
list.

But, that is just a stupid issue. Then we get into how Firefox hates it 
(too much Flash pushed through for video and it starts going unstable). 
You can't use it on android devices with the "built in" browsers either. 
You can install a different one, then install the flash, but then the 
launcher gets all F-ed up when trying to work out what to open links, 
video, etc. in. Flash has been the bane of my existence for a while, and 
not just because it uses a codec that is, again, a pain to play back, if 
you save it to your machine, since there is no "stand alone" player that 
supports it, and, again, trying to convince the bloody OS, especially 
Windows, to behavior in a sensible manner and load certain things where 
they are supposed to be is a disaster, though, I admit, this is just 
because video playback in general, where it relies on plugins and 2-3 
different things trying to work out what the frak to actually do with 
the file, is a mess. (Tried tweaking a bunch of stuff of video from a CG 
site a while back, and either it failed to play, gave errors, or 
insisted on giving me a save dialog, even when the file in question 
"used to" play fine, before I tried to make the changes.

Well, OK, maybe I should adjust that.. I hate almost everything having 
to do with video playback in browsers. Its just, flash adds its own 
idiot quirks into the whole bloody mess. :p

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