YouTube HD Flash Player Slow & Choppy on Netbooks

YouTube now has HD content. It's great, unless you're a
netbook user. The new HD content is unplayable on most netbooks.
Why? Because of the Adobe Flash player CPU intensive video
playback.
Here's an example:
Using an Acer Aspire One 1.6 GHz Intel Atom, 1 GB RAM. I
attempted to play the following video on YouTube:
"Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)" click "whatch in high
quality"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
I clicked the pause button and waited untill the video was
100% buffered, then clicked play. The video does not play at all. I
only get a bit of chopped up audio and an occational new frame of
video.
I then used the Firefox download helper addon to download the
HD version of the FLV file for the above video.
I used the VLC media player to playback the FLV file. The
video played flawlessly. Perfectly smooth.
My conclusion is that the YouTube HD content playback problem
with netbooks is caused by the Adobe Flash Player's excessive CPU
usage.
Will Adobe make their flash player more efficient to lower
the CPU requirements?
Maybe there's Firefox addon which will replace the YouTube
flash player with the VLC pluggin. If I find it, I'll post it
here.

Richard Brookfield wrote:
I ran the Flex 3 test at
http://www.craftymind.com/guimark/
and got results comparable to those shown: about 9-10 fps on my iMac, but about 45-50 fps on the work PC: an extremely visible difference. A friend of mine got 10-12 fps with his late-model Mac Pro and 8-9 fps on a slightly older PowerBook.
I just got around 34 fps on my 2.6 GHz MBP Penryn running 10.5.6 and Flash 10.0 r22 in Safari 3.2.1.
The bottom line, though, is if there are performance issues with Flash it something that Adobe will most likely need to fix on their own unless there's some specific bit of Mac OS X slowing them down.
You might also want to try upgradng to Mac OS X Leopard if you can.

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quote:
Originally posted by:
vijethk
Hi friend,
I would suggest you uninstall the IE 8 and then restart the
comp and then again install it. I do not feel it is a bug. There
might me a system error. So try this us and let us know.
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