On 04/10/2014 07:52 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 04/09/2014 06:54 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:36:23AM EST, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >>> On 04/09/2014 11:28 AM, Didier Roche wrote: >>> ... >>>> ** Grooveshark playback has stopped functioning (Jamie) >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1301341 >>>> -> Jamie told that Chris is working on it with a double build system. >>>> >>> Oxide fix is in a ppa and a silo is being negotiated. Once landed, will >>> require >>> touch images to install oxideqt-codecs-extra. This should also be added to >>> ubuntu-restricted-extras. >> >> Are you aware that chromium uses ffmpeg directly, i.e no gstreamer? For mp3 >> and audio codecs this wouldn't be a problem, but if a user tries to play an >> HTML 5 video in the browser, video rendering will be choppy or non-existant >> on touch, because hardware acceleration is not being used, that is at least >> if ffmpeg doesn't have support for using libstagefright/hybris... >> > Yes. You'd be surprised how well the software codecs actually work (this is > Google's embedded fork of ffmpeg and they could very well be using > hybris/stagefight-- I haven't personally checked), but even if they worked > perfectly, the app is still subject to application lifecycle and so this is a > poor user experience. > FYI, talking with Chris, videos are rendered by the GPU and decoded in software.
> The lack of gstreamer/media-hub is this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/+bug/1249387 > > I plan to discuss short term solutions now. Discussing with Pat, we will ship -extra on touch until LP: #1249387 is fixed, which is marked High priority. This will make grooveshark, et al work again and make the image promotable. Usability will be fixed when 1249387. -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
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