Stuttering Flash Video (i.e. YouTube) on an iMac G5

[kboone6783]

I'm trying to make an old iMac G5 (17" 1.8ghz non-iSight model) of mine useful again and am giving it to my mother, but after adding another 1gb stick of memory (making it 1.5gb total), putting in a new 7200rpm 500gb HDD and upgrading it to 10.5, I'm experiencing stuttering youtube in Safari and general sluggishness.

Could it be possible that Leopard, although supporting PPC is slowing it down? Maybe, then, downgrading to Tiger again might fix things.

Mostly, I'm confused at why it would be struggling to play YouTube clips in Safari (and in the newest build of Webkit, even).

Any advice would be really helpful!!

 

[ifilm4life81321]

Reisntall

I had this same problem. I decided to erase and re-install the operating system and then restore it from my Time Machine backup. If you don't want any of the files, just do the erase and install.

 

[fishmoose]

Maybe you can use click2flash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ to play youtube with h.264. The website don't say if it supports PPC so I guess you'll need to try.

 

[kboone6783]

I spoke to a guy at the Apple Store yesterday who said that Leopard, while able to work on PPC, will make the system slower than with Tiger.

My mother won't need or notice the new bells and whistles in Leopard, so I'm gonna try downgrading and testing out the performance today.

Thanks for the Click to Flash recommendation, sounds like a good idea too.

 

[kboone6783]

UPDATE: Reverted back to Tiger on the iMac G5 and it made performance much much better!

Apparently Leopard, although functional, is too much for the PPC processor. Tiger makes things snappy again.