Hi all.
I compiled from ports Firefox 21.0 with multimedia support through Gstreamer. It works OK video-wise, HTML 5 at http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html is beautifully rendered, YouTube HTML 5 works OK for supported videos but sound is another story:
For each video played there is a great issue with sound latency. For example, when you play a YouTube video and hit pause the video freezes instantly, but the sound continues to be played for about 30 seconds. Volume control latency is also horrible. The same happens for other videos, for example Quirksmode videos have noticeable sound latency, but shorter than YouTube. Same for other HTML5 enabled multimedia, such as those from Corsera.
I mention that Opera browser works OK with respect to this issue (no sound latency) but the lack of H264 support pretty much obsoletes it for modern web browsing.
So my question is: are there any settings I can tweak in Firefox to eliminate this issue? Either at compile time, or at run-time?
Another problem are Vimeo videos, they do not play correctly (at all) with HTML 5. Is there any way to make Firefox lie to Vimeo and present itself differently to allow playing content from there through HTML5?
Note that I do not want to install Linux emulation (really, what for??) to have Adobe Flash running, I am OK with HTML5 support in Firefox.
In other multimedia respects, my FreeBSD desktop runs irreproachable. All multimedia programs work out of the box, VDPAU works, sound is great with OSS, font rendering (after a lot of tweaking) is outstanding in all programs I use.
With thanks.
I compiled from ports Firefox 21.0 with multimedia support through Gstreamer. It works OK video-wise, HTML 5 at http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html is beautifully rendered, YouTube HTML 5 works OK for supported videos but sound is another story:
For each video played there is a great issue with sound latency. For example, when you play a YouTube video and hit pause the video freezes instantly, but the sound continues to be played for about 30 seconds. Volume control latency is also horrible. The same happens for other videos, for example Quirksmode videos have noticeable sound latency, but shorter than YouTube. Same for other HTML5 enabled multimedia, such as those from Corsera.
I mention that Opera browser works OK with respect to this issue (no sound latency) but the lack of H264 support pretty much obsoletes it for modern web browsing.
So my question is: are there any settings I can tweak in Firefox to eliminate this issue? Either at compile time, or at run-time?
Another problem are Vimeo videos, they do not play correctly (at all) with HTML 5. Is there any way to make Firefox lie to Vimeo and present itself differently to allow playing content from there through HTML5?
Note that I do not want to install Linux emulation (really, what for?
In other multimedia respects, my FreeBSD desktop runs irreproachable. All multimedia programs work out of the box, VDPAU works, sound is great with OSS, font rendering (after a lot of tweaking) is outstanding in all programs I use.
With thanks.
