So what IS the official line on Flash Aversion? Resource Eating? Taking away from QuickTime?

[Winston]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Winston]
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

So I'm more curious now after doing some testing. That Flash video is FLV1. If you open it up in QT you get the message:

The document “video.flv” could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands.

So unless there's something I'm missing, you weren't comparing the same videos.

What res do you have the YouTube video set to when it's playing back in the browser?

OK, I do have ClickToFlash installed, with YouTube whitelisted, and the ClickToFlash option for h.264 video on YouTube enabled.

I downloaded the file by clicking on it in Safari's Activity window. The link was:
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id=nPjvLk-eEUU&t=vjVQa1PpcFPyaa5rZTAvlOl-OicmxohVF59O9k5_AU0%3D

I have YouTube set at the default:
"Choose my video quality dynamically based on the current connection speed."

I let the video fully download before playing it in Safari, then downloaded the same file. It downloads as an .mp4 file, not .flv.

So I just turned off the ClickToFlash h.264 and tried the YouTube .flv file.
http://v2.lscache4.c.youtube.com/videopl...ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor&fexp=901421%2C903205&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=5&ipbits=0&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1264816800&key=yt1&signature=5F7C9E8C51ABCF6CEBE004A7EAD7E2DD7BBB7BB2.6DD78B345A8109B128F326001AF1B58FFCF2DCC9&factor=1.25&id=9cf8ef2e4f9e1145


I get more or less the same result with the .flv file. It plays poorly in Safari, and fine in QuickTime Player.

So is the problem with Safari, Flash, what?


- W