On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:35:35 +0100 Ralf Madorf wrote: > There are solutions for audio, but for video I suspect unlikeable OS to > have advantages :(. Considering a lot of the digital signage industry uses Linux on many screens I suspect it can handle video just fine. Flash in a browser has crap performance for two reasons a badly written flash player and maybe needs gpu access set-up and because rendering in browsers is inefficient anyway, I wish they'd look at that, rather than dumb javascript stats that break some of the grsecurity kernel security patches features. By default non-free codecs may be a problem and apparently xine is thought to be most reliable for dvds and probably a lot of codecs etc.. Whatever platform you use, no single format will work on all by default. I thought I'd found one (mpeg2 with expired copyright), untill I tried it on a playbook?, I think. Which is why Google are pushing vp8 but getting resistance from Apple.
