YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

Post by gurkendoktor » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 9:42 AM UTC

username223 wrote: post #195

lukifer wrote: post #183

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Speaking from personal experience on Yosemite: slow UI, constant beachballs and stutters (despite lots of RAM and no platter drives), paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, 100% CPU usage to play tracks (without FX/EQ), years of mission-creep, and a general conceptual mess since version 12, with its multiplicity of modes and sub-modes. As an iTunes apologist and power-user since 1.0 (my huge library admittedly is not he…

> paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, Good to know I'm not the only one. I've become used to scrubbing the pointer up and down over the list of podcasts until the part I'm looking at is legible, and plugging my iPod in twice to get it to show up. But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups. At least it doesn't have enormous memory leaks, like Safari and Keynote, which regularly beac…

Post by gurkendoktor » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 9:46 AM UTC

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What's crappy about iTunes?

I don't think iTunes is bloated, per se. I'm actually on an older version because they're removed useful features in 11 and 12 and there's no way to extend the program. The bloat is probably integration with the store. That should be split into a separate program and iTunes should just be a music library manager. Of course, that won't happen since not many people care about having a persistent music library any more.

Post by Aoyagi » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 9:53 AM UTC

Post by 72deluxe » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

guelo wrote: post #115

shutupalready wrote: post #65

What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer. For those that don't know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company's stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it's now worth $6. The only explanation for RealPlayer's popularity was its D…

RealPlayer was the coolest thing I'd ever seen when it came out in the mid 90s. It was the first streaming music player, as far as I know. Of course they later became corrupted by the advertising dark side, like every other internet company. But they were cool for a time. This was also before everyone decided that the browser would be the only internet platform.

Post by ampersandy » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 10:03 AM UTC

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For me it's the other way around, in a 4 years old netbook I still use, the HTML5 video usually performs better than flash.

I don't think your experience has anything to do with my experience. That fact that on your hardware you felt html 5 video works better has no bearing on whether it work for me, on my hardware. The fact that somebody down-voted me for adding a relevant anecdote, but happens to go against the tide of this threads opinion(ie: FU Flash), it's pretty indicative of the extremely poor voting etiquette around here.