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Sep. 2nd, 2015 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torkellIt's rather crazy that despite Flash being completely the wrong tool for playing videos, it does a better job than whatever Firefox uses for HTML5 video.
It's very crazy that on the modern Internet the state-of-the-art for video playback is so much worse than what any half-decent media player could do 15 years ago. Seriously, are DXVA and video overlays still a thing, or does everything just throw all the pixels at the CPU and hope that it's fast enough?
It's very crazy that on the modern Internet the state-of-the-art for video playback is so much worse than what any half-decent media player could do 15 years ago. Seriously, are DXVA and video overlays still a thing, or does everything just throw all the pixels at the CPU and hope that it's fast enough?
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Date: 2015-09-29 08:36 pm (UTC)You forgot "or crash the graphics driver and take out the browser for good measure because Fuck You that's why". Sadly that's on the shiny new GeForce 950 GTX in the desktop, not the laptop which at least has the excuse of being ancient.
I swear, it all reminds me of the system I had back at university, and the amount of hassle I had trying to make that doing supposedly simple things like "play a MP3 without stuttering" (which should be trivial with an Athlon 1.3, but becomes near-impossible when using the VIA 686B chipset and a SB Live - the two did not get on at all).