Can video play be improved?

I have to say I pick up this Pismo more often now than my MacBook but the only real problem with it is video play. With only 8mb VRAM, Youtube is really slow. Is there any way around this? Assuming the VRAM is soldered in, I am at a loss.

For best video playback on a Pismo, quit all other apps and background processes that might compete for CPU, because you just don't have much CPU power compared to what online video needs.
The reason online video managed to fit into home bandwidth was that they invented codecs that could crunch video down enough to transmit for smooth playback. The catch is that to do this, the online codecs require a very powerful processor on the receiving end to both decompress and play back frames fast enough.
The problem is that the G3 and G4 and their video cards are too old and weak to handle the decode demands of these modern codecs, while today's 2GHz multi-core CPUs were made for them. The G4 can barely do standard def, but HD is out of the question. The G3 will struggle even with standard def YouTube and of course HD is simply not possible.

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