Monday Evening Links > YouTube, Disney close to deal

said by Vchat20:

I don't think it's so much that, but quality and the adeptness of the flash players to use much more cpu than they should need to for most content (especially when you start looking into 720p content on hulu or YT).

Now if some of these people started using some sort of commonly agreed upon player like the Divx web player (ie: Stage6) and use Divx or Xvid with moderate bitrates, I'd be much happier to watch it on their site with ads that last as long as their on-TV counterparts!

But until they can do something a little better, I'm gonna go for torrents which are much easier to use.

said by BF69:

that's bull. I have a 5 year old computer with a P4 3.2 ghz with 1.5 GB of PC3200 ram and an ATI 9550 video card and I can watch full screen 720p just fine. Your typical $400 wal-mart computer has better specs than that machine. So that shoudn't be an issue for the cast majority of people.

said by BF69:

Please most use Adobe flash player. Bitrates are fine. streamrates on most stuff is getting in the 1.2 mbps range or more. southparkstudios.com streams at 1.2 Mbps and it looks great.

said by Noah Vail:

Not so bull.
Any of my systems that uses a variable speed CPU fan, crank up to max RPMs on those flash video sites. These are dual core systems w/ 2-4Gig ram and decent video cards; one is a dual Xeon workstation.

I don't know why flash players are so brutal on CPUs but my experience is the same as Vchat20. I have a friend who assembles web sites, and films his own video to flash. Perhaps he'll know why.

At one time, 'most' folks lived their online lives in walled gardens. If 'most' people were the gold standard for what our techno choices should be, you'd be posting this from CompuServe.

NV