Re: YouTube & Hardware

Jeffrey Watts <[email protected]>
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IIRC, YouTube stores it's videos in H.264 and the Flash player is just
one front end.  I strongly suspect that your DVR isn't using Flash.
It probably has a hardware H.264 decoder.  It's what the iPad does.

Jeffrey


On Friday, July 1, 2011, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins-ZRzwtDF0/[email protected]> wrote:
> On the "flash is just a bad format" thread:  I do note that my DirecTV DVR
> manages to play YouTube videos full screen without stalling and jerking.
> Obviously dedicated decoding hardware, the CPU is pretty low-power.
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