[ale] OT: HTML5 player

[JD]

I had a Eee (1008H) and used it for an XBMC player with MCE remote.  No h.264
encodings over 600p played without stuttering or extreme compression - bad
enough to show visual artifacts.

Might be fun to check out the AMD-APU section here:
http://www.pricewatch.com/motherboard_combos_with_memory/


On 07/04/2014 12:22 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I have slow 1 Ghz Eee PC with broken screen that I'm using for watching
> online and offline content on TV. Apparently Flash is slow because video
> card is not supported by flash player or does not have video acceleration
> capabilities. To go around I have sometimes to download youtube content
> with plugins (downloadhelper) or better way there is VLC based plugin that
> www.veetle.com uses for HD play. So apparently there is enough CPU/video
> power to work for video player even with decent resolutions.
> 
> All above is just blabbering :)
> 
> <rant>
> 
> I've tried to enable HTML5 player for mozilla browser in youtube. Result
> were terrible. Why is the HTML5 player slower than Flash player. I though
> that will be based on some open source video library which I know do play
> well on this CPU/Video combo.
> 
> </rant>