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

• jabl 8mo ago
  Good point. Though too late in this particular case, since the battery was also busted, I ended up e-wasting the machine.
• 2000UltraDeluxe 8mo ago
  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.
  • dmitrygr 8mo ago
    we were decoding 480x320 MP4 on PalmOS 5 devices in early 2000. Those were single-core in-order 200mhz ARM devices with no accelerators at all. Pentium M outperforms those easily and thus can do it too.
    • anthk 8mo ago
      Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.
      • dmitrygr 8mo ago
        got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2
        • anthk 8mo ago
          And still much easier to play than h264. A Pentium II with NetBSD was more than enough. Nowadays on an n270 CPU based netbook I use mpv and yt-dlp capped to 420p, even if I can play 720p@30FPS.