guspaz: You can actually enable better interpolation on Google Video. It's near the bottom-right, the little thingy that lets you choose original size, double size, etc. Predictably, it makes things quite a bit slower.

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I actually think a Google Video is a pretty appropriate use of flash. Usually I hate flash, but that's not really because of the technology itself but because it's almost always used for stupid banner ads that eat 100% of CPU and play freakin' music.. in a banner ad! But with videos is just makes so much sense; the quicktime and windows media plugins work so terribly and the flash video players work so well that it's hard to argue.

I briefly toyed with the idea of doing a video player in JS. I even mocked one up... and got a whopping 3fps! You could probably do it, but sound would be the major problem. I seem to remember some ghetto sound support involving .au files in ancient browsers back in the day, but even if that stuff still works these days, keep it synchronised would be near impossible.

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I just came across this, which almost made me fall off my chair. Not for those who are easily offended, however...