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.
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. -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
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