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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/2014 06:54 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:36:23AM EST, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> On 04/09/2014 11:28 AM, Didier Roche wrote:
>> ...
>>> ** Grooveshark playback has stopped functioning (Jamie)
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1301341
>>> -> Jamie told that Chris is working on it with a double build system.
>>>
>> Oxide fix is in a ppa and a silo is being negotiated. Once landed, will require
>> touch images to install oxideqt-codecs-extra. This should also be added to
>> ubuntu-restricted-extras.
> 
> Are you aware that chromium uses ffmpeg directly, i.e no gstreamer? For mp3 and audio codecs this wouldn't be a problem, but if a user tries to play an HTML 5 video in the browser, video rendering will be choppy or non-existant on touch, because hardware acceleration is not being used, that is at least if ffmpeg doesn't have support for using libstagefright/hybris...
> 
Yes. You'd be surprised how well the software codecs actually work (this is
Google's embedded fork of ffmpeg and they could very well be using
hybris/stagefight-- I haven't personally checked), but even if they worked
perfectly, the app is still subject to application lifecycle and so this is a
poor user experience.

The lack of gstreamer/media-hub is this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/+bug/1249387

I plan to discuss short term solutions now.

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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