Comments on: two cool open video notes

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:27:25 +0000

Didn’t mean to turn it into anti-linux; !as-pro-linux includes anti-linux, but there’s a lot of territory outside that as well.

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:13:13 +0000

@Joseph – Lots of people here use Fedora and Ubuntu (split around 50%) and there are quite a few Windows machines. We’re a cross-platform project so we have lots of different machines. We’ve also sponsored a huge amount of the Cairo and Theora work to date and have put a lot of work into making Linux work better as well. (See the memory savings we put in place in between 3 and 3.5!) We work with Behdad on font layout issues all the time.

I’m not sure how this post turned into some anti-linux thing.

By: Alessandro Decina

Alessandro Decina — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:08:27 +0000

@Joseph in the meantime you could try my gstreamer addon for firefox (http://github.com/alessandrod/gbp). It uses Xv so it should play as good as in totem.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:37:39 +0000

Is one of the problems a lack of linux love amongst mozillites (I hear it’s pretty mac-heavy there) and a lack of Mozilla love under the linuxites?

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:28:00 +0000

At least one lesson here from the windows work is getting a faster cairo backend for Linux. The windows Direct2D work is just a cairo backend and all it’s doing is handling the scaling.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:20:22 +0000

Whatever, as long as it stops sucking. Please. Or lemme hand the video off to totem.

By: drago01

drago01 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:26 +0000

@Joseph

Because totem is using XV while firefox doesn’t (because it operates on RGB data).

What it could do is to either use opengl for scaling or XV+composite (render to offscreen textured xv, composite the other element on the image and display it).

Dunno how useable the second approuch would be but using opengl should definitly work (even flash uses that).

By: a a

a a — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:38:48 +0000

Could you try to do a rotated playing of video? The video plays just fine for me in Firefox with a 2 year old laptop, no Direct2D. The true power of Direct2D is not that it can play full screen video, but how well it can integrate video with html content.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:49:45 +0000

the Old Republic game trailer at 854×480 in mp4 format brings my Droid to its knees..

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:39:30 +0000

I dunno what’s going on, but watching a 640×360 theora on my netbook is completely useless in Firefox, but is creamy-smooth in totem. Any fix for this?