previously on this list Stuart Henderson contributed: > > Secondly, viewing html video (eg in youtube) continuously lags. The sound > > is perfect but every other > > video frame seems to stop for a second or two and then the video "jumps" to > > the correct frame. This > > makes streaming video playback virtually unwatchable. This "bug" is > > specific to OpenBSD again. I have > > tested this at different machines and the result are the same. Once again, > > this issue does not appear with > > other BSDs or linux (without flash). > > Any improvement with GENERIC rather than GENERIC.MP?
I'm guessing this is due to the new KMS 3d support not being as fast right now but much better than you had before. Playing video in browsers and even displaying pictures is a surprisingly resource hungry task with umpteen potential rules working out what shape and where everything should be and unfortunately more effort has been spent on javascript performance than rendering. Before I upgraded one of my tv systems hardware (running Linux) some videos were unplayable on say smplayer or any gui player but worked fine with mplayer. There are plugins to use mplayer with firefox but the best performance will be downloading the video using youtube_dl and then using mplayer to play it. This method would also get around the Linux is a fourth class citizen by adobe for flash video playback too, though I'm not sure if that can be done in a streaming fashion without waiting for the download to finish. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________
