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I am running 32bit pup (upuphh+d21) in my old laptop with Pentium 4, 2G RAM. With my wifi card default Light browser does not play youtube videos. Seamonkey and Palemoon is rather slow particulary with youtube.
1. Is there a way the Light browser can play youtube videos?
2. what options to play youtube videos in puppy?
to play youtube videos in a browser is the worst solution.
The cpu load is massively higher than playing in in a player like mpv as example.
Your hardware is quite slow and independent of browser the real time video decoding will need the whole cpu power.
If your gpu would be capable for hardware decoding you could reduce cpu load drastically.
When I remember right you've already installed mpv and yt-dl.
A possibility would be to install smplayer frontend.
Instruction how to use, see forum topic smplayer/smtube.
gychang wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:06 pmI am running 32bit pup (upuphh+d21) in my old laptop with Pentium 4, 2G RAM. With my wifi card default Light browser does not play youtube videos. Seamonkey and Palemoon is rather slow particulary with youtube.
1. Is there a way the Light browser can play youtube videos?
2. what options to play youtube videos in puppy?
The Light Browser you are referring to is a cut-down of a very old Firefox version (about 6 years old). You will have problems watching youtube videos and accessing other internet sites with that. The youtube site in itself is extremely heavy and resource hungry. Another option which I use, is to play youtube videos via the embedded video player facilities of an external site. The DuckDuckGo search site works well. So to watch youtube videos: Change your search engine to DuckDuckGo > search for your video from video tab > play video directly from the DuckDuckGo site (choose this option when asked). My hardware specs is similar to yours. I use Palemoon and the method as suggested.
@gychang :-
Greg:-
You're essentially praying for a miracle, mate!
At launch, the Pentium 4 was billed as "multimedia-ready". Under real-world usage conditions, despite being the first CPU in the world to offer the then-new SSE2 instruction set, the P4s turned out to be a dismal failure where media handling was concerned. Even Intel themselves were reluctantly forced to admit that the older Pentium 3 (with the P6 architecture) did a better job; this is, after all, the design that went on to inspire the entire subsequent 'Core' line-up of chips.....
That old P4 is your biggest problem, mate. Playing back YouTube in a browser is only exacerbating the issue.....
Intel tried-out too many revolutionary ideas at the same time with the Pentium 4. Predictably, they ended up with a CPU that basically made a right "dog's dinner" out of most tasks it was asked to tackle... 
You may have more luck with norgo's suggestion. When I get around to it, I'm going to give amethyst's suggestion a whirl on the anciente Dell lappie; it, too, is saddled with a P4. I'll be interested to see if that'll function in Slacko 560 running Palemoon....
Mike. 
amethyst wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:32 pmThe Light Browser you are referring to is a cut-down of a very old Firefox version (about 6 years old). You will have problems watching youtube videos and accessing other internet sites with that. The youtube site in itself is extremely heavy and resource hungry. Another option which I use, is to play youtube videos via the embedded video player facilities of an external site. The DuckDuckGo search site works well. So to watch youtube videos: Change your search engine to DuckDuckGo > search for your video from video tab > play video directly from the DuckDuckGo site (choose this option when asked). My hardware specs is similar to yours. I use Palemoon and the method as suggested.
thanks for the tip...
mikewalsh wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:45 am@gychang :-
Greg:-
You're essentially praying for a miracle, mate!
You may have more luck with norgo's suggestion. When I get around to it, I'm going to give amethyst's suggestion a whirl on the anciente Dell lappie; it, too, is saddled with a P4. I'll be interested to see if that'll function in Slacko 560 running Palemoon....
Mike.
thanks for your input.
G
In any browser you can try to set video quality in settings (under the video) to a lower value. It should little decrease the stream of the data.
But as amethyst wrote the site itself is heavy, which can be observed in Htop (load average).