I understand that it is possible to use the vdpau hardware acceleration of the video card with flashvideos, but how can this be achieved in FreeBSD? I assume that vdpau which is automatically enabled with some ATI cards would work as well?
From what I gather, Adobe didn't believe the Linux graphics drivers were stable/reliable enough to continue support for it.Well, that is not good news. Why would they do that?
I'm not really sure, but I don't think so at this time. Full hardware acceleration is possible for www/chromium and www/firefox if using the right graphics hardware(Nvidia) by forcing it on though available flags and I use it without problems, however though Chromium says video acceleration is enabled, it doesn't actually seem to be the case. Firefox seems to be the same. I haven't looked further to be honest as I haven't had any problems with playing videos with either www/firefox or www/chromium.And what about if you use html5 instead of flash? Would it be possible to use vdpau with that?