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From: Meino.Cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:08:56
Message-Id: 20161130060845.GC4842@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives? by "J. Roeleveld"
1 J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> [16-11-30 06:48]:
2 > On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 05:33:15 AM Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 > > Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> [16-11-30 05:08]:
4 > > > Am Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:42:16 +0100
5 > > >
6 > > > schrieb Meino.Cramer@×××.de:
7 > > > > I get sick of this [CESNORED] HTML5 stuff coming from YouTube!
8 > > > > Most of the videos while playayaingnaying arereare stututterutering
9 > > > > liiklike helellell.
10 > > > >
11 > > > > I tested a lot of HTML5 addons to fix that problem and googled
12 > > > > around the world but nothing helps. The only thing I found is an
13 > > > > iconic sentence, which is true in this case also:
14 > > > > "You are not alone...!".
15 > > > >
16 > > > > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into
17 > > > > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer
18 > > > > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)?
19 > > >
20 > > > For me it was just the other way around. HTML5 mode played much (very
21 > > > much!) more smooth than flash player. I opted in early by that time for
22 > > > switching YT to HTML5 player. This was for Chrome, of course, because
23 > > > by that time Firefox wasn't really compatible.
24 > > >
25 > > > You probably really should check your graphics stack. If you have an at
26 > > > least somewhat decent machine (something which was built during the
27 > > > last 5 years), you should have absolutely no problems playing videos in
28 > > > the HTML5 player. Even my aging machine in the office (which didn't
29 > > > play smooth videos in the flash player) runs full HD streaming videos
30 > > > smoothly in the HTML5 player - no stuttering, no blocking, no
31 > > > framedrops. This was different with the flash player which looked like
32 > > > it dropped every second frame in fullscreen mode - but at least it did
33 > > > not stutter due to that "optimization".
34 > > >
35 > > > Maybe give some information about your graphics stack and
36 > > > configuration...
37 > >
38 > > Hi Kai,
39 > >
40 > > I think that the hardware is not the problem, since downloading the
41 > > video and playing it offline had resulted in no problems ever...
42 > >
43 > > Cheers
44 > > Meino
45 >
46 > Meino,
47 >
48 > In one of your other emails, you mentioned that your ADSL is incapable of
49 > providing the full-HD stream.
50 > This could easily be the cause for the issues you are having with HTML5 video
51 > as well. Maybe look into cache-options?
52 >
53 > --
54 > Joost
55 >
56 Joost,
57
58 did this (~/.config/mpv/mpv.config) with no positive effect.
59 I decreased the video resolution to <1280 (again via mpv.conf) which
60 helps to some degree.
61 Interesting is: It hangs always a the same points in the video if
62 playing the same video with different configurations.
63
64 I called mpv with an url form the commandline and indeed it shows
65 "playing video" and "buffering" (at this point it hangs) alternateing.
66
67 The FF problem was not only hangs but something like the following
68 sentence:
69
70 Thehe quiquickkckick bkrowownwn foxoxfoxx joxujumumpjumpsumps
71 oveovrver thhehe lazazylazyzy dogog
72
73 Somehow three steps forward and two backwards. The audio was never
74 effected though.
75
76 With "Play with mpv" it """"only"""" hangs.
77
78 Do I really need an new DSL contract with my provider becayse
79 FF has switched to HTML5 only?
80
81 Can't be...or?
82
83 --
84 Meino

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