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PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT!!!

Though H.264 streaming capability comes with being a CR supporter, NOT ALL VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING IN THE H.264 FORMAT. This can be due to the following reasons:

1. The original source video is not compatible
2. The video has yet to be converted to support H.264
3. The video was uploaded when the encoder suddenly went down

As a rule of thumb, all new uploads should be available in the H.264 format. If not, assume reason 3 to be behind it. In addition, all older uploads that were uploaded before the implementation of H.264 are still in the process of H.264 conversion, which explains why not all the videos in CR have H.264 streaming options.

~ edsamac
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Adobe released their latest version of Flash player 9 (update 3) with h.264 support, meaning star supporters will now have access to even higher quality videos!

What's h.264? see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264 basically its a better way to compress videos, and its what apple Quicktime uses.

to start watching stuff:
1. You must be a star donor
2. Download and install the latest flash player here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
3. Go to any video page, click on the "h264" link below the video. it should play!
4. If theres no h264 link, it means that its either an older video that's still being h264-encoded, or you aren't a star supporter.

Post comments, bugs, etc below. thanks!

Edit:
to all the people who cant see the video but can hear sound, can you guys post screenshots? also try hitting the Larger link, and lemme know if it works!

i really really like it ^^

videos are really really good quality now ^^

The quality is better then before, the sound quality is also awesome. I 'm not too sure but it takes a shorter time to buffer the videos now.

Some videos improved, others I did not see much change, and in others the sound quality dropped to the LQ level.

ex: kaiji 9

lol i love having a star =) its looks real good

Now you must re-encode ALL videos like I suggested!
mwahahahaha
(Well after the kinks are worked out, pleaseee)

for the people with bad RAM and a bad internet connection, will it buffer really slow or will it be about the same?

But I have to try this out so ill know any way just give me heads up so i dont like crash cause of the lag =.=.....yes my computer sucks that much T_T

twinkle twinkle little star......pls come to me! i wan those h264

its sexxxy shinji ty. i love the clarity and crispness of the sound. its AMAZING! ty again

thank you so much, we soooo deserve this! :P
arigato gozaimashtia!

They seem SOOO much faster, and there's like zero pixels. It's all good, except..I think it lost a very little bit of sound quality. I think <---

Great Job , WoW i can see the diffrence .. oh wait , was my imagnation .. must get star next mont asap

humn.... i just checked it out with Bamboo blade 7, and the high-def version in full screen looks better then the h.264 version.... the expansion into fullscreen seems to pixelate it for some reason...

i already have mine updated just recently.

Sounds good cr rocks!!