AGP Graphics card for older PC to improve YouTube?

[Thorham]

Use a youtube browser extension to download a video and watch it with a good native player.

[Thorham]

But other videos won't play through VLC - these are the videos with commercials inserted at the front, etc.  VLC says "Your Input can't be opened".

Use a browser extension to simply download the video.

[Thorham]

What the hell is wrong with Flash Player to take so much more CPU as to make 720 and even 480p so difficult to play?

What's wrong with it is that Flash sucks. You just can't beat properly written native players. I use an extension for youtube simply because I really hate those flash players with a passion (and as a nice bonus you won't get any commercials and advertisements that way).

[Thorham]

All this tells us one thing: Flash and HTML 5 suck big turds! Hurray for utterly brain dead standards.