Re: Video in FF 38.8.0 in eCS...?

Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> David,
>
>> For audio, you can try switching to DART (see README.OS2) or download
>> PMunimix from Hobbes and play with the various volume sliders. Here I
>> had to turn up the front speakers to hear sound.
>> As for the jerky video, I've only played local videos due to lack of
>> bandwidth and they play fine. Assuming you have a powerful enough CPU
>> and enough bandwidth, I'm not sure. Really there should be a buffer
>> setting that can be increased but I don't remember one.
>> What CPU do you have?
>> Dave
>
> I set DART in config.sys and audio seems to work in HTML5 videos. I
> already use PMUniaud and it does seem to control the audio volume,
> especially the sliders for front speakers, as you have found.

Good.
>
> Video plays most of the time, either with or without DIVE, but with DIVE
> it sometimes stops after about two minutes with audio still working. FOX
> News has always been a problem for me, and You Tube sometimes works or
> not, but some other sites seem to work better.

I guess I should have asked what video card :) IIRC, some systems don't 
set things up right for DIVE. You can always turn off accelerated video 
to disable DIVE.

>
> My CPU is an AMD FX-4100 quad core 3.60GHz.

Plenty good enough

>
> Is HTML5 video still in development?

Probably still on our platform.

>
> Where are the buffers I might try to adjust?

Go to about:config and search for media.cache. The defaults look 
reasonable but it shouldn't hurt to play with them.

Dave