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InsightsIE

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Sep 29, 2008
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So I found a new way to make YouTube Run better on G3s, G4s, G5s etc. So first the specs I tested are:

300MHz G3
128MB
6GB
CD
OS X 10.3.9
Adobe flashplayer 9
Camino webbrowser

In camino go into preferences, Block flash to stop automatic playing.
Go to video of choice, and enter &fmt=5 at the end of a url.
Make sure the video box (Black box) is on the screen in the centre, so you can fully see the box no scrolling up or down. Press play. Then stop the video and let it load. When it loads hit play and on my g3 it was kind of choppy but on 128MB that can't hold the OS if it had 512MB it would be a little smoother. If you have a G4 PowerBook or something it be better. Even fullscreen worked well enough

Here I made a video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rhkfYlLOs
 
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