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i-rinat
7y ago
I've just checked Firefox 67.0 source code and found no evidence of hw-accelerated decoding. Firefox uses part of FFmpeg source code under the name "ffvpx", for VP9. There are some remainders of such decode-and-then-download-
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i-rinat
7y ago
Nope. It's just software decoders from FFmpeg project that are heavily optimized. Also Firefox disables VP9 on slower machines, so websites serve H.264 instead.
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i-rinat
11y ago
> Crashes occasionally Looks like Mozilla decided to ditch Flash, and now Firefox 40 sometimes hangs completely due to some odd interlocking with plugin-container process. > Main advantage ... is that accelerated rendering is used whe
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i-rinat
11y ago
Hanging on going to full screen is surely not an application fault, it's something with either X server or a video driver. File dialogs should work, for both loading and saving files.
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i-rinat
11y ago
"This" does; browser part is supported. To make it work, you'll need to get libpepflashplayer.so file from Chromebook, as only version from ChromeOS have DRM code compiled in.