Video Playback In Linux Web Browsers SUCKS! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Daniel
Strange. I am watching this video in Full-HD 1080P with Chrome, I have a lot of tabs running, terminals, editors etc. and the CPU runs between 0.7% and 6%. I have been using Linux full-on (no windows at all) since 2006, and it has been years since I have had playback issues, and it was mostly web issues due to flash plugins. With flash dead, so is the problems. Also I have a tiny NUC running as a media center in the living room. The processor in it, can hardly decode an AVI file via software codecs, but I am playing x265 videos with minimal CPU load in both the browser and players like VLC. So it seams to me that hardware decoding is doing it's job just fine on Linux. Maybe try installing some of those bad proprietary packages that some people often cry about and refuses to use.
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Strange. I am watching this video in Full-HD 1080P with Chrome, I have a lot of tabs running, terminals, editors etc. and the CPU runs between 0.7% and 6%. I have been using Linux full-on (no windows at all) since 2006, and it has been years since I have had playback issues, and it was mostly web issues due to flash plugins. With flash dead, so is the problems. Also I have a tiny NUC running as a media center in the living room. The processor in it, can hardly decode an AVI file via software codecs, but I am playing x265 videos with minimal CPU load in both the browser and players like VLC. So it seams to me that hardware decoding is doing it's job just fine on Linux. Maybe try installing some of those bad proprietary packages that some people often cry about and refuses to use.
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Andrew
I must admit I'm a little surprised to learn that this is an issue. As a non-programmer who's been using Linux for the last 10 years, on more computers that I can count at this point, I've generally found that once I run the code for force pipeline to address any screen tearing, videos play just as well (sometimes better) than in Mac OS or Windows. Of course, one must be realistic with regards to what the hardware is capable of. A discrete GPU usually helps -- despite the initial hassle I've had great results with a cheapo Nvida card on my desktop -- but even an integrated can work well. For instance, I watched this video on a 12 year-old Vaio laptop running Debian with LXDE, and it played 720p60 smooth as silk.
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I must admit I'm a little surprised to learn that this is an issue. As a non-programmer who's been using Linux for the last 10 years, on more computers that I can count at this point, I've generally found that once I run the code for force pipeline to address any screen tearing, videos play just as well (sometimes better) than in Mac OS or Windows. Of course, one must be realistic with regards to what the hardware is capable of. A discrete GPU usually helps -- despite the initial hassle I've had great results with a cheapo Nvida card on my desktop -- but even an integrated can work well. For instance, I watched this video on a 12 year-old Vaio laptop running Debian with LXDE, and it played 720p60 smooth as silk.
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bobpeters61
I have no issues streaming video on Firefox either on Arch on my 11th Gen i5 home build or on Debian on my old 4th gen i5 notebook. Click on a 750p or higher resolution video, hit full screen and it's like watching TV. Installed Deepin System Monitor on my Arch machine to check out the high CPU usage you mentioned, and only saw at worst a spike of 10% - 15% when the video is first opened, dropping to
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I have no issues streaming video on Firefox either on Arch on my 11th Gen i5 home build or on Debian on my old 4th gen i5 notebook. Click on a 750p or higher resolution video, hit full screen and it's like watching TV. Installed Deepin System Monitor on my Arch machine to check out the high CPU usage you mentioned, and only saw at worst a spike of 10% - 15% when the video is first opened, dropping to
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Donald
I haven't had a problem playing videos on a web browser in a rather long time... I will say I tried this just now and trying to play this very video on mpv it was horrible...it was constantly stopping and buffering like I was on some slow internet connection or something so I am not sure what this was supposed to fix but that was worse than anything I have ever experienced on a browser.
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I haven't had a problem playing videos on a web browser in a rather long time... I will say I tried this just now and trying to play this very video on mpv it was horrible...it was constantly stopping and buffering like I was on some slow internet connection or something so I am not sure what this was supposed to fix but that was worse than anything I have ever experienced on a browser.
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Lolechi
Wow, how convenient - I sure love browsing the internet using two different applications. Also mpv may look nice but would it kill the devs to add a UI that anyone can use w/o having to learn yet another obfuscated set of key bindings? And then you wonder why -regular- users don't prefer Linux.
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Wow, how convenient - I sure love browsing the internet using two different applications. Also mpv may look nice but would it kill the devs to add a UI that anyone can use w/o having to learn yet another obfuscated set of key bindings? And then you wonder why -regular- users don't prefer Linux.
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Mark
Thanks so much DT for that..cant believe the diffrents in quailty...WOW I have a slow connection but all i have to do is hit pause and it loads the cahe up for me...thanks again..thats really changed my internet experince...i better throw you a tip payday...The Baker
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Thanks so much DT for that..cant believe the diffrents in quailty...WOW I have a slow connection but all i have to do is hit pause and it loads the cahe up for me...thanks again..thats really changed my internet experince...i better throw you a tip payday...The Baker
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Yure
I have this problem on any browser under Linux operating systems. My poor Celeron N4100 cpu with iUHD graphics can-t play even 720p without dropping frames. In windows I run even 4k60 without any frame drop. I haven-t found any way of adressing this issue yet
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I have this problem on any browser under Linux operating systems. My poor Celeron N4100 cpu with iUHD graphics can-t play even 720p without dropping frames. In windows I run even 4k60 without any frame drop. I haven-t found any way of adressing this issue yet
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Stargazer
this is the reason I stayed with Windows in the end. I watch 4k/8k videos regularly and not having hw acceleration is an absolute deal breaker, and having to watch it in a secondary app is ridiculous. And you're the only one I've seen it mention EVER.
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this is the reason I stayed with Windows in the end. I watch 4k/8k videos regularly and not having hw acceleration is an absolute deal breaker, and having to watch it in a secondary app is ridiculous. And you're the only one I've seen it mention EVER.
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Krist-f
I had problems with tearing in browsers and video playback but using any wayland environment fixed it(kde,gnome,sway-everything works tearfree). You should compare a gnome wayland session to any xorg de-s and see if it solves the problem for you.
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I had problems with tearing in browsers and video playback but using any wayland environment fixed it(kde,gnome,sway-everything works tearfree). You should compare a gnome wayland session to any xorg de-s and see if it solves the problem for you.
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Matthew
thank you for this video. quality and to the point as always. this has drove me nuts ever since i started using fedora on my laptop a few months ago... though i find the need for more software and extra stuff running a true bummer
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thank you for this video. quality and to the point as always. this has drove me nuts ever since i started using fedora on my laptop a few months ago... though i find the need for more software and extra stuff running a true bummer
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