----Getting flash/youtube to work well is unfortunately wishlist territory since they have yet to enable hw acceleration.---- I'm not sure I understand this; in Mac OSX youtube videos (both html5 and flash) run excellent, the problem is only in Ubuntu.
----So my Sandybridge mba can manage playing the 2k Sintel mp4 with plenty to spare. Can you grab the 2k mp4 and the 1080p mkv versions of Sintel and use that to baseline performance of your system? For example, mplayer -benchmark -frames 500 -nosound $sintel---- I'm not sure if the below output is what you want? user@pc:~$ mplayer -benchmark -frames 500 -nosound $sintel '/home/user/Downloads/Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview | FULL MOVIE.mp4' MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /home/user/Downloads/Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview | FULL MOVIE.mp4. libavformat version 53.21.1 (external) Mismatching header version 53.19.0 libavformat file format detected. [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und VIDEO: [H264] 1280x720 24bpp 30.000 fps 1609.8 kbps (196.5 kbyte/s) Clip info: major_brand: mp42 minor_version: 0 compatible_brands: isommp42 creation_time: 2012-12-27 10:43:34 Load subtitles in /home/user/Downloads/ Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external) Mismatching header version 53.32.2 Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Starting playback... Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 Unsupported PixelFormat 81 Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 V: 16.6 0/ 0 11% 0% 0.0% 0 0 BENCHMARKs: VC: 1.845s VO: 0.154s A: 0.000s Sys: 0.042s = 2.041s BENCHMARK%: VC: 90.3944% VO: 7.5713% A: 0.0000% Sys: 2.0342% = 100.0000% Exiting... (End of file) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103236 Title: Choppy and pixelated video on Macbook Air 5,1. Unable to run/view HD videos at all To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1103236/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
