YouTube & Hardware

[Jeffrey Watts]

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 at tarcanfel.org> 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.