Just discovered that YouTube HTML5 video playback can be improved dramatically if the Perian QuickTime plugin is uninstalled — it seems that Google is trying to be smart and deliver a WebM format to the browser rather than h264 in an MP4 container. Bit of a pain, I was wondering why the player was dropping frames all over the place, and being generally unresponsive to scrubbing/play/pause interactions.
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