MacBook Air STANDARD YouTube Video?

[Doju]

Everyone gripes about HD streaming on YouTube with Rev A. Alright, well my laptop can't run that either at the moment, so I don't really care. My question is, what about standard video? A hiccup here and there is fine, but when I saw a YouTube video of the Rev A studdering here and there with HD, it must run standard fine, no?

 

[LinMac]

Flash 9 consumes far too much CPU to be usable on a Macbook Air for any length of time. Flash 10 still has a few glitches with some Flash applets running on certain websites, but it uses 1/3 - 2/3 less CPU than Flash 9 running the same Flash applets. You'll immediately notice the difference on Youtube and similar websites.

You can see where Flash is going by checking the 64bit Linux alpha build for performance. It is very fast and not very crashy.

 

[HiFiGuy528]

I have a rev. A 1.6ghz. No problem with YouTube standard or HD. I watch a lot of TV shows downloaded from iTunes too without issues.

 

[Andre1980]

Quicktime plug-in for YouTube videos

There is plug-in out there which will enable Safari to play a YouTube video using Quicktime instead of Flash (or whatever the default thing is):
http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/04/16/youtube-in-mp4-via-quicktime-plugin

Although I am happy with the usual playback quality for YouTube clips on my PowerBook this plug-does improve stability and should make an even bigger difference on a MacBook Air.

Go try it.

 

[SFStateStudent]

I have a rev. A 1.6ghz. No problem with YouTube standard or HD. I watch a lot of TV shows downloaded from iTunes too without issues.

+1 ^^^ I have done the same w/o issue. Everything is running rather well at the moment...