[Arm-netbook] [EOMA68] A20 G2D / VAAPI / VDPAU video acceleration in web browsers

[Xavi Drudis Ferran]

El Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 02:35:05AM +0100, Alexander .S.T. Ross deia:
> for firefox there is the addon Video Assistant that will auto play video
> from embedded & video sites in your chosen system video player. I find
> mpv works well for this because it has a very quick load time and a
> basic, minimal window that i then put on-top and have the video playing
> in the corner of my screen while i do other things.
>

And maybe go to about:config in firefox and disable mediasource with 

media.mediasource.enabled=false

mediasource (MSE) is a modern WebAPI used by vimeo, youtube and some
popular video websites to throtle streams (or download stream chunks
at different moments and resolutions/quality depending on instant
network bandwith available) from javascript in the client.  Besides
cross-origin problems (I guess it's the implementation fault) and
possible LibreJS issues, Video Asssitant can't get an URL to give the
video player if you have mediasource enabled and go to websites that
use mediasource. At least for now those sites degrade to http(s) urls
if mediasource is unavailable in the browser. 


Well, I just tried some examples, maybe it's not completely true
generally, but it seems to work like this in my short experience.