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UncleSlackytoday at 9:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

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


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2000UltraDeluxetoday at 12:05 PM

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.

jabltoday at 10:17 AM

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