Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 05:33:15 AM Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com> [16-11-30 05:08]:
> > Am Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:42:16 +0100
> > 
> > schrieb Meino.Cramer@gmx.de:
> > > I get sick of this [CESNORED] HTML5 stuff coming from YouTube!
> > > Most of the videos while playayaingnaying arereare stututterutering
> > > liiklike helellell.
> > > 
> > > I tested a lot of HTML5 addons to fix that problem and googled
> > > around the world but nothing helps. The only thing I found is an
> > > iconic sentence, which is true in this case also:
> > > "You are not alone...!".
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into
> > > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer
> > > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)?
> > 
> > For me it was just the other way around. HTML5 mode played much (very
> > much!) more smooth than flash player. I opted in early by that time for
> > switching YT to HTML5 player. This was for Chrome, of course, because
> > by that time Firefox wasn't really compatible.
> > 
> > You probably really should check your graphics stack. If you have an at
> > least somewhat decent machine (something which was built during the
> > last 5 years), you should have absolutely no problems playing videos in
> > the HTML5 player. Even my aging machine in the office (which didn't
> > play smooth videos in the flash player) runs full HD streaming videos
> > smoothly in the HTML5 player - no stuttering, no blocking, no
> > framedrops. This was different with the flash player which looked like
> > it dropped every second frame in fullscreen mode - but at least it did
> > not stutter due to that "optimization".
> > 
> > Maybe give some information about your graphics stack and
> > configuration...
> 
> Hi Kai,
> 
> I think that the hardware is not the problem, since downloading the
> video and playing it offline had resulted in no problems ever...
> 
> Cheers
> Meino

Meino,

In one of your other emails, you mentioned that your ADSL is incapable of 
providing the full-HD stream.
This could easily be the cause for the issues you are having with HTML5 video 
as well. Maybe look into cache-options?

--
Joost