Netbooks and HD youtube videos. Choppy playback?

[z0mbi3]

Still considering getting a netbook, but I've been reading that they're pretty poor at playing back these HD/HQ youtube videos. Apparently the problem mainly lies with the flash player being quite inefficient in terms of system resources, and that if you download the FLVs they'll playback quite happily in VLC.

So my question is that if you were using Ubuntu on a netbook, could you not just set vlc to be the default media player for FLVs under Firefox and get the videos to load that way?

I'm not an HD nut or anything, I'd just like to think that if I bought a netbook that it wouldn't struggle with web content.

So anyone got any thoughts on this?

 

[z0mbi3]

youtube HD is fine on Samsung NC10, if its ever choppy, you need to turn the processing power up to the max

Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[z0mbi3]

That and the appalling Flash HD video codec.

This is what I was getting at in the OP. If you download the FLVs and stick them in VLC then they'll play fine.

I find it hard to believe people are finding that they play fine in the browser. I'm just not sure if you can use VLC instead of the flash player but still have it integrated in the browser nicely.