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With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 |
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(don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast |
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enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to |
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play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. On some html5 videos |
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(Firefox with USE="webm"), The download is actually a touch faster than |
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the playback, and there's no buffering at all. |
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Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell to |
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eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest |
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available speed using the onboard Intel GPU. Well, I can play the HD |
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Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen |
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is hopeless. The onboard GPU can't keep up. So I'm looking at getting |
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a PCI video card. Any relatively new PCI video card that is supported |
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by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration? Any |
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experiences, good/bad/so-so? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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