On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:06:57AM +0200, Nils R wrote: > > Am 08.07.2014 20:50 schrieb Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > > > > 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 >
You don't need to use a partial file to see the videos. I use this command: mplayer $(youtube-dl -g -f18 --prefer-insecure 'the youtube url') -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
