Want to view Youtube's HD 1080 seamlessly

telepath_2000

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Dear all,

With my current config (which I must confess, is not very great), I am able to view HD videos - like when I play full HD 1080p video files using the DIVx player (also on full screen)

However, if I try to view youtube videos and change its settings to 1080p, the video begins to lag and freeze...
Even at 720p, the same effect is seen.
I cannot even consider switching to full screen.

Its not because of 'waiting for buffering'; I can see the video has properly loaded.

Any suggestions on troubleshooting?

What I am confused about is that - how come full HD videos can be played full screen on the DIVx player, but even a 720p youtube video on full screen starts freezing... and lagging.


Specs:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
AMD Radeon HD 6570
3GB RAM

Board: MSI, MS-7125, revision 3.0
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD; version :6.00 PG
PSU can put out ~500W

(Running Windows Vista SP2)
 

Darkman69

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Firefox is amazing with Youtube and I guess you never heard of Ad Block Plus and other addons.
 

Z1NONLY

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Never heard of ad block? seriously?

I run ad block and ghostery.

Maybe I don't know how to click "play" in youtube when I run firefox, but somehow figure it out when I run Chrome and IE...then forget again every time I run firefox?