> Did anyone try playing HTML5 video in a browser on a slow (<= 1Ghz) single > core machine running Linux? Would you expect that to work?
Can't be done, maybe with a new 1ghz with a newish intel gpu. It took me a while with custom settings to get mythtv just to play DVB (480?) video (mplayer worked) well on something like mythbuntu 7 or 9 and newer versions of mythbuntu couldn't on the same hardware and settings. I have a p4 3ghz with hd2400 pro that can play 1080p after some twiddling in mythtv (vdpau which I thought was for nvidia) but low grade iplayer HD (<720P) is pushing it towards the limits on google chrome and I have another mythtv intel gpu 64 bit dual core (newer than duo) machine where chrome can play browser video but firefox really struggles. I'll love the day I can ditch those linux boxes with html5 being one step but I'm not sure I'll hold my breath for dvb/dvbs card support but maybe tv will all come through the internet via html5 in the future anyway :-) Things like sky go and many others only work with Windows and mobiles currently though. Pirate sites work of course and often have more conetent in one place as long as you can navigate the forests of javascript that OpenBSD is better suited to ;-) -- KISSIS - Keep It Simple So It's Securable
