[mythtv-users] very slow youtube - please help

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Nov 26 16:13:44 UTC 2013


On 11/26/2013 05:44 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 11/26/13 10:33, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/26/2013 10:15 AM, Petr Stehlik wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> ever since upgrading from Mythbuntu 11.x to 12.04 I have issues with
>>> unusable Youtube replay on my Atom 1.6 GHz with NVIDIA ION on FullHD TV.
>>> Yet Google Chrome replays the same video on the same hardware almost
>>> perfectly. Is Flash in Chrome using HW acceleration? Could the internal
>>> web browser in MythTV use HW acceleration for its flash.so as well?
>>>
>>> I have prepared a video showing my TV set trying to play a video first
>>> using Google Chrome and then via MythTV internal web browser. You can
>>> see (and hear, since there is major video-behind-audio problem) the
>>> issue here:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5x2MQSfdg
>>>
>>> It'd be great if you with similar HW could try out the same song and
>>> tell me if it works better for you. I suspect the Qt's (KHTML?) browser
>>> to miss something simple to enable the HW acceleration for flash...
>>>
>> The plugin does what it does.  We can't control Flash, and all we can do
>> is enable or disable plugins.  So if Flash is working in the browser,
>> that's as much as we can do for it.  From there, it's up to the site (to
>> enable the use of VDPAU acceleration) and the plugin (to use it).
> Is it possible Chrome is going one step further, and automatically
> enabling HTML5 on Youtube for you, completely bypassing Flash?
> MythBrowser does have HTML5 video support, and there was some modified
> version of the Youtube grabber that used it, but it was too unreliable
> to commit last time I tried it.

That's actually very likely.  Chrome = Google.  YouTube = Google.  
Making Google's YouTube work better on Google's Chrome than any other 
browser = priceless.

Mike


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