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IE9 and YouTube HTML5 video
I know you can easily opt in and out of the trial but I wanted to see how others running IE9 find using youtube HTML5.
On my system which is a sandy bridge laptop (win 7 ultimate) everything runs brilliant under normal flash. But for HTML5 not so good. Embedded HTML5 vids within YouTube run fine but if I select full screen then I don't think the video is 100% fluid. It's watchable but it's almost if the fps is a bit down. Hard to explain really. The other thing I see is if I move the cursor in and out of the full sized window playing the html5 vid it causes a momentary black flicker. Basically everytime the cursor causes the controls / options into view it causes the flicker. Leaving cursor alone the video plays fine full screen albeit not silky smooth. I doubt GPU drivers are too blame as everything else is fine and whilst they are not 100% upto date they aren't really old either (just cannot keep up with ATI bringing out new drivers virtually every month). Also I have switchable graphics so I can also use less demanding intel GPU too and exact same happens with these.
I also have an older Dell XPS Core 2 duo laptop running vista and IE9. This does exactly the same except the fps are even worse making for a very choppy video (although I put it down to lack if power).
On my work computer also running IE9 and windows 7 the HTML5 vids seem to run a bit smoother and I don't see the black flicker although moving cursor on and out of video area causes a slight freeze of probably a micro second.
I would like to know what others see with this. Does youtubes HTML5 implementation/player just plain suck? Everything else on IE9 seems rapid and fine apart from this small quirk. I guess IE10 may handle HTML5 vid better but I don't want to go back to that as I noticed it had some bugs.
Cheers
Wayne