Surprisingly, even though the video drivers are presumably vastly better on Windows XP, playing the bigger video takes almost 80% CPU cycles of a CPU core. I have no idea why.
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Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
Apparently, playing 320x200 15 FPS native HTML5 (Ogg Theora) video in Firefox on FreeBSD takes less than 1% of a CPU core, and that's with X11 compositing enabled (translucent window), but not AIGLX. Nice. However, the "same" video at 640x480 at 30 FPS takes around 10%. It looks like audio is unsynced with video in both cases.
Posted on 2009-09-28T17:56 by ivoras
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#1 Re: Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
Unlike with your blog comments, Opera actually plays that video without issues.
#2 Re: Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
Holy crap. My ears are bleeding from that poor excuse for music. I didn't get far enuf to type "top" in another terminal
#3 Re: Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
I have the audio/video async too.
#4 Re: Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
Opera sucks big time. Among other things, Opera 10 doesn't play Ogg video by default.
#5 Re: Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
I do see noticable more cpu usage on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091013 Shiretoko/3.5.5pre, but not enough to discourage me from writing a web font-end for it: http://github.com/dpavlin/HTML5TV
I'm betting that support will be better with time, basically...