> Am 08.07.2014 20:50 schrieb Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]>:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> I wrote a small script which uses youtube-dl to download the Video and then,
> after a 5 sec. Delay, starts to play the partial file. You can find it at
>
> https://bitbucket.org/drm00/bin/src/1197e82c8e792e593efaaef159a34290a60fe959/dwm-helper/watch_online_videos.sh?at=default
