** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Milestone: ww09-2015 => ww11-2015
** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu WebApps bug tracking, which is subscribed to Oxide. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249387 Title: hook Oxide into Ubuntu platform API for media-hub Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products: Fix Released Status in Media Hub: Fix Committed Status in Oxide Webview: Fix Released Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Right now oxide uses software rendering for audio and video via the chromium content api ffmpeg implementation for libffmpegsumo.so. This is provided in either oxideqt-codecs (suitable for main) or oxideqt- codecs-extra (suitable for universe). oxideqt-codecs-extra includes mp3 and h264 playback. Software rendering is not ideal on the phone, but in addition to that, webbrowser-app, webapp-container and apps using Oxide or UbuntuWebView are subject to application lifecycle and therefore the user experience for things such as grooveshark playlists and youtube videos is poor because the device will shut off the screen or suspend during playback. The correct way to solve this is for Oxide to use the media-hub in some manner. This was somewhat easily solved with QtWebKit since it used gstreamer and it could be made to hook into the media-hub. However, QtWebKit is dead upstream which is one reason why we are using Oxide. We should look to see how qtwebengine is handling this (ie, are they just using the software rendering or are they redoing the QtWebKit gstreamer work for qtwebengine). Perhaps we could provide our own libffmpegsumo.so or wrap it in some manner. Perhaps we can work with upstream to have something that works better on Linux/Ubuntu in general. Whatever method is chosen should be maintainable in the face of weekly or biweekly stable updates (low api churn) and 6-8 week beta updates (potential api churn) to the chromium content api, since we expect this update frequency in our stable releases for security, bug and web compatibility fixes over a period of up to 5 years. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1249387/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-webapps-bugs Post to : ubuntu-webapps-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-webapps-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp