online vids too dark.. why ?
in [UK Mac]
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From: Peter Ceresole on 2 Mar 2010 08:22 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Not just that, but how many browsers/OSs have Webkit? And can it be made > to work, in principle, in those browsers/systems? Bother. Of course that should read 'but how many browsers/OSs *don't* have webkit'. -- Peter
From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Mar 2010 08:37 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. > > I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them > always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up > to maximum brightness. > > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? Hmm. Calibate your display, I would. But an idea that might be more useful follows. Try this search for the Firefox plug-in `Better privacy': <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=better+privacy&cat=al l&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=1&lver=3.6&atype=0&pp=20&pid=3&sort=&lup=> (There are other add-ons to do the same sort of thing). Anyway, get it installed, let it do its `delete your Flash cookies' thang, and see if that does anything useful. Just guessing - but you got an odd one here, laddie, ain'tcha? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Mar 2010 08:37 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > HTML 5 is not Flash (or Silverlight or Java FX -- not that anyone > > cares about those all that much). That's the big deal. > > Well given that Flash works extremely well, then there really is no > point in HTML5 at all, except as a curiosity. Given that Flash works so horribly inefficiently that your G5 iMac is incapable of displaying a BBC HD video stream smoothly[1], HTML5 is obviously long overdue - since it permits more efficient codecs to be used. [snip] Rowland. [1] My 2.5GHz 4G5 could *just about* manage a BBC HD stream, but even that couldn't keep up on wide panning shots, which ended up going jerky. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Ben Shimmin on 2 Mar 2010 08:43 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >> That's nice, but seriously, look at the source (the master.css file). >> It's utterly hideous. > > Not just that, but how many browsers/OSs have Webkit? And can it be made > to work, in principle, in those browsers/systems? WebKit is an open-source rendering engine. Amongst others, it's used in Safari (Mac and Windows), Chrome (Windows, Mac, and Linux, the latter two in beta), and many mobile browsers too (including Mobile Safari, Android, and Nokia S60). b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Mar 2010 09:01
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > I think you need to see the bigger picture. The iPhone (and iPad) > > don't support Flash. Many mobile devices don't support Flash. Flash > > performance on Macs is worse than on PCs (demonstrably -- I actually > > see better performance in Windows on VMware than on Mac OS X, on the > > same system). Flash is a closed, proprietary system, whereas HTML 5 > > isn't. Et cetera. > > But as far as I can see, Flash works very well on my iG5 and on Anne's > MBP. Flash doesn't work very well on your iG5, Peter: you personally can see it's not up to the job. The BBC HD streams you can get cannot be decoded smoothly on your G5 iMac. [snip] Rowland. (who had a 2.5GHz 4G5 with a beefy graphics card which couldn't decode BBC HD streams smoothly - it stuttered on wide panning shots. No G5 iMac has the oomph of that beastie) -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |