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| Main - Computing - Speedy Youtube with Windows Media Player? | New thread | New reply |
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 Red Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 79/162 EXP: 163174 Next: 2695 Since: 03-07-07 From: Chicago Last post: 3521 days Last view: 1616 days |
From what I've seen, it would be both possible and advantageous to make an extension for Firefox to make YouTube play on Windows Media Player instead of Flash Player. Now I'm guessing you're probably thinking "Ewwwww... Micro$oft Player...Blech!", but Flash Player is the real CPU hog here. With Windows Media Player, you get the awesome and efficient ffdshow codec, combined with the speed advantages of an overlay surface.
The results speak for themselves, when I tested Windows Media Player, CPU usage was at 5% for firefox, using YouTube's flash-based player, CPU usage was 40%! So yeah, Flash Player is 8 times slower than Windows Media Player (decoding with ffdshow). The requirements? You need ffdshow and an FLV Splitter, and now the Windows Media Player plugin for firefox will be able to play FLV files streamed off YouTube. Only real problem here is that I don't have a clue how to actually make a Firefox extension which would intercept the YouTube pages, and replace the flash-based player with a WMP based one. *yes, I know it's really libavcodec doing all the real work here, but I'm still giving credit to ffdshow anyway. ____________________ |
| Hiryuu |
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Done. Level: 79 Posts: 1198/1471 EXP: 4470477 Next: 108990 Since: 02-19-07 From: ??? Last post: 6089 days Last view: 6081 days |
For me, that wouldn't help anyways. 56K would time it out.
That's why I use something like YouTubeX. In that vein, I can play whatever file YouTube has to offer (aside from the buys) and save it on my comp. VLC comes in handy viewing those since those are FLVs being streamed by file...far better than using Media Player (unless it's Classic and you have good OpenGL support). |
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 135/181 EXP: 192940 Next: 13502 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6100 days Last view: 2887 days |
You guyyyyyyyyyyys, why aren't you all using VideoDownloader for Firefox and playing your stuff in Media Player Classic?  |
| Metal_Man88 |
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Level: 48 Posts: 366/458 EXP: 776657 Next: 46886 Since: 02-19-07 From: The Void Last post: 3033 days Last view: 3032 days |
Bah. My computer is fast enough that none of this matters to me. |
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 Spike fuck~ Level: 58 Posts: 543/722 EXP: 1537216 Next: 40330 Since: 02-19-07 From: Pittsburgh, PA Last post: 5293 days Last view: 2580 days |
VLC > *
however I've never really been all that big into video and youtube especially smells like alot of lame cheese to me. ____________________ |
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Done. Level: 79 Posts: 1208/1471 EXP: 4470477 Next: 108990 Since: 02-19-07 From: ??? Last post: 6089 days Last view: 6081 days |
Posted by Metal_Man88 epenis |
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Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 157/189 EXP: 205882 Next: 560 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6004 days Last view: 5996 days |
Heck my computer sucks and it doesn't matter  |
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