> (In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > As far as I understand, it was also raised in this thread that using > gstreamer can have advantages in those areas as well (vaapi, vdpau, > opengl?). I leave it up to you, whether improvements in these areas are to > be achieved with or without gstreamer.
It's true that gstreamer could let us adopt technologies like that more quickly, since the maintenance burden would be shared. Especially if we were able to use Gstreamer on more than traditional GNU/Linux systems. However, one of the reasons playback in the browser is slower than a dedicated player is that one can do more with the output, such as css transformations, html rendered on top, etc. We'd like to make that faster, and I expect that will happen over time, but right now it's slower because it's not just decoding straight to the application's compositor buffer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
