[Coco] [Spam] hardware scrolling

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>> 
>>> Nope.  No luck.  All unavailable.
>> 
>> All worked fine, and still do, from here.  Using FF on linux.  I wonder if
>> in your case, its the codec that is unavailable?  Looks like it is ID'd as
>> shockwave-flash.
>
> Yes, but it's some flavor of flash that Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04 cannot 
> digest.  Other videos work fine, but these will play only on Firefox (which 
> I'm moving away from due to, where do I start.. memory leaks, degraded 
> scrolling after being up more than a day or so and general sluggishness - 
> some trick on a 4-core i7 clocked at 4.5 GHz. with state-of-the-art Nvidia 
> display adapter).

Following up on my own post:  It seems that the problem is Chromium trying 
to use HTML5 to render videos.  Works for some, but not others.  After a 
bit of Googling I discovered it's a relatively common problem that 
requires a third-party "script" (extension) to fix.  After installing 
YouTubeCenter it uses the Flash Player for everything and all's well.

Steve


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