Is GPU acceleration supposed to work in Firefox on OpenBSD? I'm just checking "about:support" and can see "0/1" in GPU Accelerated Windows. In the meanwhile, Chromium is fine (according to chrome://gpu).
On a side note, smtube is a very nice solution to playing YouTube videos. Installing gecko-mediaplayer (http://www.lounge.se/wiki2/show/FlashOnOpenBSD) has also improved the performance of video in Firefox a little bit for me. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________________________________
