Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> [16-11-30 05:08]:
> Am Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:42:16 +0100
> schrieb Meino.Cramer@×××.de:
>
> > I get sick of this [CESNORED] HTML5 stuff coming from YouTube!
> > Most of the videos while playayaingnaying arereare stututterutering
> > liiklike helellell.
> >
> > I tested a lot of HTML5 addons to fix that problem and googled
> > around the world but nothing helps. The only thing I found is an
> > iconic sentence, which is true in this case also:
> > "You are not alone...!".
> >
> > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into
> > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer
> > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)?
>
> For me it was just the other way around. HTML5 mode played much (very
> much!) more smooth than flash player. I opted in early by that time for
> switching YT to HTML5 player. This was for Chrome, of course, because
> by that time Firefox wasn't really compatible.
>
> You probably really should check your graphics stack. If you have an at
> least somewhat decent machine (something which was built during the
> last 5 years), you should have absolutely no problems playing videos in
> the HTML5 player. Even my aging machine in the office (which didn't
> play smooth videos in the flash player) runs full HD streaming videos
> smoothly in the HTML5 player - no stuttering, no blocking, no
> framedrops. This was different with the flash player which looked like
> it dropped every second frame in fullscreen mode - but at least it did
> not stutter due to that "optimization".
>
> Maybe give some information about your graphics stack and
> configuration...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kai
>
> Replies to list-only preferred.
>
>

Hi Kai,

I think that the hardware is not the problem, since downloading the
video and playing it offline had resulted in no problems ever... 

Cheers
Meino