01-29-2010, 01:52 AM
M A V I C wrote:
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Wow. Ok. There appears to be some misunderstandings in this thread...There isn't a Flash video codec. All Flash provides is a wrapper for third party video codecs. The problem is, the most commonly used codecs are processor intensive.
No, that isn't the problem. The problem is Flash itself. If I download a YouTube video (in H.264 format) and play it with QuickTime player, it plays perfectly. Yet, it won't play at all in Flash on the web page.
Flash is garbage. That said, please show me an example you've tested with. If they're both identically encoded H.264 content and they are the same content, they should be nearly identical in playback.
I tried a random YouTube video on my 667 MHz TiBook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjvLk-eEUU&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-3-HM
Playback on YouTube is jerky. Playback with QuickTime Player or Miro is perfect. This is not the best video as a lot of it is static and there are no faces to check voice sync, but it still proves the point.
M A V I C , AA is right on this. Flash plays back very poorly in a web browser. I don't know who to blame, but it does not work well.
- W