I used to use YouTubeCenter, but I've found that YouTube seems to have been rolling out a lot of changes recently that were causing frequent problems with YouTubeCenter, some of which took quite a while before they were addressed by the YouTubeCenter devs. I guess give it a go, but be aware that it may cause problems and should probably be one of the first things to disable if you run into any.
That's why I'm using developer builds. 😀
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What are the useful differences in Flash "developer builds"?
The problem with finding a version that produces less lag is that Flash player is made obsolete pretty quickly. It isn't long after a new version is released that all Flash content is made to support the new version. Running an older version because it is less resource heavy may leave you unable to view Flash content at all because it won't support all the latest features. You'll be left staring at a black screen with the words "download the latest Flash player" on it. I have machines with Flash player 10 that even have difficulty. Forget trying to access most content with anything older than that. I remember when I first started on the internet Flash player 3 or 4 was the latest version. I wouldn't think anything works with that anymore unless you can still find a website made with 90's technology that was never updated.
I see I've misunderstood you.
A video player instead of browser is also invaluable for me, when I desire precise control over the video. One generally cannot precisely seek with the Flash based player and its "fat" seekbar nor framestep. If there is something on the video demanding close attention, browser users are often at the mercy of the author to slow down the playback and exactly point out the area of interest.
Even when SMPlayer has to restart download and resync to the stream after seeking, for me it does so more quickly than the Flash player, and I can advance frames in slow motion by pressing or holding down "." or clicking the pause button.
I could swear that DASH playback worked in the program since YouTube switched to separate video and audio, but apparently it does not. I don't find "1080p" to be a quality improvement over "720p", except maybe on mostly still game footage. The bitrate increase (5 mbit over 3 mbit) is smaller than the increase of picture area. It's just blurred blocks.
As a side note, something I feel I should point out is I just noticed the CPU usage of YouTube's Flash and HTML5 video players on my 4 GHz computer:
YouTube Flash Player CPU Usage: 5%~8%
YouTube HTML5 Player CPU Usage: 24%~31%
...yeah...
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wrote:YouTube HTML5 Player CPU Usage: 24%~31%
Probably WebM.
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wrote:I was recently surprised to learn that YouTube seems to have gone almost 100% HTML5. There was previously an option to opt-in to the HTML5 trial group, but this has now disappeared. Lately, every video I check is using HTML5. I've noticed a very slight decrease in CPU usage over Flash, at least on one of my machines. HTML5 used to be just as bad as Flash if not worse, but it has improved substantially since then.
I expect that the best YouTube performance will be obtained through Chrome, but I could be wrong about that.
what web browser?
EDIT: WHAT THE HELL!? HTML 5 was supposed to be MORE effcient and faster. Not slower.
HTML 5 seems to be working fine here.
0% CPU load playing Youtube 1080p
http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/769527.jpg
edit. Or that could have been the Flash player, I just noticed it still gets used sometimes.
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wrote:HTML 5 seems to be working fine here. […]
HTML 5 seems to be working fine here.
0% CPU load playing Youtube 1080p
http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/769527.jpg
edit. Or that could have been the Flash player, I just noticed it still gets used sometimes.
When in doubt, right click anywhere on it and if it's the Flash player, there will be an option to see "About" details for Flash. :P
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I don't know though if the obvious reduce in video quality at the same settings has something to do with the transition from flash to html5...
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