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		flowless on May 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat Youtube's HTML5 video playback on my 3Ghz i7 is so bad that I rarely watch videos in browser. Now it's even worse as all videos play in low quality unless you use DRM enabled "tech". This is what I use instead: mplayer -fixed-vo $( youtube-dl -gf mp4 $* "$link" )

syshax on May 26, 2015 [–]

If you have philosophical objections over H.264 because of patents etc., then this won't help.

If you have the HTML player enabled, and if your GPU supports hardware H.264 decoding (most do these days), this plugin may help:

https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

Otherwise Youtube might send VP8, which your CPU has to decode.

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