Re: Laptop replacement

On Tue, 4/1/2025 4:08 AM, David Wade wrote:

On 01/04/2025 04:44, Rich wrote:

In comp.misc D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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You could use an iPad to watch You tube shit in bed and the iPad doesn't
need to leave the house either!

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Its Apple.
It doesn't have a mouse
It doesn't have a keyboard
It doesn't understand many video protocols
Its shit
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Again you have shown yourself to be a wise man! I completely agree! I won an
iPad once at a company event. After trying to use it for one month I came to the
conclusion that I could do everything it could do with my computer, and my
computer could do more and had longer battery life, and was generally more
useful. So why should I carry two things?
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I sold it for about 200 EUR or so.

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The ipad is intended for "content consumers" and preferably for those
who are "just fine" with remaining within Daddy Jobs' "walled garden".
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So long as you stay within the protected boundary Apple has set out for
you, it will appear to do everything you want it to do.  But you musn't
stray from the path Daddy Jobs has decreed for you to remain upon.

 
But to be fair, my wife has an iPad and has never had an issue with watching YouTube videos...
... are there YouTTube videos you can't watch on an iPad?
 
Dave

If you use something like yt-dlp, you can get a list of the formats available.
At one time, there were some 4K titles which resulted in rather large files
(1GB per video). If your equipment has a decoding limitation, you
should be able to adjust what you receive. One way or another.

The useragent of the device, should help Youtube select a format
that works. Within the total range of CODECs that Youtube uses.
For example, you would not expect the video to be Cinepak.

This is an out-of-date example (as the tool now might be yt-dlp).
Normally, you don't have to select a format, as it uses "BEST"
by default. And the pickings are slim in this example. Nothing of any real quality.
BEST means selecting the best audio stream and the best video stream
and muxing them together with FFMPEG.

youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQUCYl-ocs

[youtube] wyQUCYl-ocs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] wyQUCYl-ocs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] wyQUCYl-ocs: Extracting video information
[youtube] wyQUCYl-ocs: Downloading js player vflmw6aFG
[youtube] wyQUCYl-ocs: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for wyQUCYl-ocs:
format code  extension  resolution note
139          m4a        audio only DASH audio   48k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz), 1.90MiB
249          webm       audio only DASH audio   60k , opus @ 50k, 2.03MiB
250          webm       audio only DASH audio   79k , opus @ 70k, 2.52MiB
171          webm       audio only DASH audio   91k , vorbis@128k, 3.19MiB
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 5.06MiB
251          webm       audio only DASH audio  156k , opus @160k, 5.50MiB
160          mp4        192x144    DASH video   85k , avc1.4d400b, 25fps, video only, 3.30MiB
133          mp4        320x240    DASH video  204k , avc1.4d400d, 25fps, video only, 7.50MiB
17           3gp        176x144    small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36           3gp        320x240    small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18           mp4        320x240    medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43           webm       640x360    medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k (best)

   Paul