On 2015-07-28, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
IIRC it works better on GENERIC rather than GENERIC.MP. I haven't tried in
a while though.
