On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:58:54PM -0500, Yass Amed wrote:
> This problem is NOT specific to this model or any other machine (as far as I
> experienced).
> This issue was present on a few towers and still is on an Intel/Asus{1} based
> machine.
> You can try debugging FireFox or Chromium with gdb(1).
>
> {1} No dmesg, not on this machine at the moment.
I have never seen fluent browser HTML5 video on any OpenBSD machine.
Generally, videos at a fair resolution on OpenBSD played back without
use of xvideo extensions or OpenGL are not watchable.
My theory is that browsers rely on fast multi-core CPUs and multihreading in
the kernel to show video smoothly. OpenBSD doesn't have multihreading in
the kernel and is tuned for correctness rather than performance.
Did anyone try playing HTML5 video in a browser on a slow (<= 1Ghz) single
core machine running Linux? Would you expect that to work?
