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0 pointsUncleSlacky3mo ago0 comments

You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

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2000UltraDeluxe3mo ago

Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2?

The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

we were decoding 480x320 MP4 on PalmOS 5 devices in early 2000. Those were single-core in-order 200mhz ARM devices with no accelerators at all. Pentium M outperforms those easily and thus can do it too.

anthk3mo ago

Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.

dmitrygr3mo ago

got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2

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jabl3mo ago

Good point. Though too late in this particular case, since the battery was also busted, I ended up e-wasting the machine.

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2000UltraDeluxe3mo ago

Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2?

The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

dmitrygr3mo ago

anthk3mo ago

Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.

dmitrygr3mo ago

got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2

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jabl3mo ago

Good point. Though too late in this particular case, since the battery was also busted, I ended up e-wasting the machine.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse