On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote:
With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6
(don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast
enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to
play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. On some html5 videos
(Firefox with USE="webm"), The download is actually a touch faster than
the playback, and there's no buffering at all.
Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell to
eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest
available speed using the onboard Intel GPU. Well, I can play the HD
Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen
is hopeless. The onboard GPU can't keep up. So I'm looking at getting
a PCI video card. Any relatively new PCI video card that is supported
by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration? Any
experiences, good/bad/so-so?
This is a CPU problem, not GPU. Try to install
media-video/smplayer-0.8.0 (older versions don't support YouTube), and
open the YouTube video link in it. In the preferences ("performance"
section) you can select the quality at which to open the videos.
