why is firefox is so shit when it comes to media? it either lags or says file type is not supported even tho it fucking is supported. this becomes extremely noticable in imageboards. how can i solve these issues? i want to stick with firefox but i want my

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Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 17:48:23 No.16866

why is firefox is so shit when it comes to media? it either lags or says file type is not supported even tho it fucking is supported. this becomes extremely noticable in imageboards. how can i solve these issues? i want to stick with firefox but i want my media at the same time…

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 17:51:42 No.16867

oh also i heard firefox nightly solves many of firefox retarded problems. so should i switch to nightly?

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 18:07:17 No.16868

This sounds like a network error on your end. Are you using tor?

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 18:09:19 No.16869

>he doesnt use mpv to play all media
ngmi

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 18:19:20 No.16870

>>16868
I tried multiple browsers (chromium family) and they are fine but I prefer ff and its forks
>>16869
no meme answer please

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 18:23:26 No.16871

>>16870
i was serious rofl
i download everything i watch, even from youtube or twitter

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 19:00:19 No.16872

>>16866
ensure you have flag gfx.webrender.all set to true

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 19:02:02 No.16873

Stop using Windows.

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 19:20:39 No.16874

>>16870
If you have a tiling window manager it isn't a meme. Just open the terminal, type 'mpv [paste video url]' and it opens up. Even works for live streams like twitch.

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 22:38:39 No.16880

My firefox is proxied over a dedicated tor circuit and all media except incognitube loads fine. It sounds subtly worse though, because its my only program that uses pulseaudio.
A recent firefox esr release had a race condition, so occasionally a random site didn't load while my fan was happily whirring away.
>>16869
>mpv
>the fork that can't even seek DVDs

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 22:39:59 No.16881

>>16880
?

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 22:42:01 No.16882

>>16881
there is no mpvencoder, only mencoder

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 22:43:46 No.16883

>>16882
thats nice dear

Anonymous 2022-09-19 (Mon) 22:59:46 No.16884

>>16883
the absolute state of mpv:
>riaThihu commented on Oct 16, 2020
>is there a chance that mpv won't get gimped any further and gain back support for BD/DVD/CDDA?
>Akemi commented on Oct 16, 2020
>very unlikely. none really cares of us and none wants to maintain it, that's also part of the reason it was removed. we usually suggest to use a different player for that.
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8181
"suckless" i3 shills will defend this!

Anonymous 2022-09-20 (Tue) 04:34:23 No.16891

>>16880
>>16882
>>16884
/g/tard moment.

Anonymous 2022-09-20 (Tue) 04:36:00 No.16892

>>16872
gfx.webrender.all seems to solve the lagging problem but no MIME type shit error still shows up

Anonymous 2022-09-20 (Tue) 17:58:05 No.16906

Who the fuck still uses discs that aren't completely incompetent when it comes to technology (and thus would have no need for sleek media players like mpv) like boomers

Anonymous 2022-09-26 (Mon) 20:47:45 No.17003

>>16867
Nightly is dev/test version of firefox. Whatever they push there will most likely reach the mainline sooner or later, performance increase or otherwise.

Anonymous 2022-09-26 (Mon) 21:00:13 No.17005

>>16867
If you want to send statistics to the devs of everything you do, sure.

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 08:22:47 No.17006

>>16884
VLC keeps winning
>>16906
lots of media is still on discs and don't have quality torrents out there

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 08:55:51 No.17007

>>17006
VLC is bloat

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 15:20:41 No.17008

>>16880
>>17006
MPV is an MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/) fork that uses the gui by default, plays all arguments in the same window, supports more ass fonts and was relicensed to LGPLv 2.1 or later, including the code from MPlayer initially licensed under GPLv2 or later. It removed support for TV, DVB, PVR, BD, DVD, CDDA input and many output devices (framebuffer, images, oss, sdl audio among others), switched to the long option format and reportedly runs significantly slower on older machines. What irritates me the most is that the cli doesn't show deciseconds and uses shell escapes. A small team currently maintains compatibility of MPlayer with FFmpeg, so most distros continue to support it.

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 15:21:51 No.17009

firefox is based
the time is ours now that chrome is backing off from adblock

this is the firefox century!!!

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 17:47:18 No.17010

>>17008
>and reportedly runs significantly slower on older machines
As opposed to…? As someone with an old toaster mpv runs the best.

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 23:35:04 No.17021

>>17010
MPV generally needs more performance tuning on older hardware (see their policy on hwdec), has permanently higher resource usage or is otherwise broken in comparison to MPlayer (or older MPV releases):
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4213 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4565 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5418 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5536 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5704 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/6081 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/6141 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/6314 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/6899 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7256 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/10284
MPlayer presumably had more workarounds for broken GPUs and MPV shows signs of bitrot at an astonishing pace. I also found this gem:
>You must think you are so clever right? You probably felt like in paradise when you clicked on that "close issue" button. Nothing better than rejecting a request of an useful and cool feature with a passive-aggressive "NYEH HEH, no and NO" and not proposing anything at all. "NOT MY ISSUE! WONTFIX", yet VLC is doing it and you are not, mplayer is doing it and you are not, because it seems you are not competent enough to do so. Fully fledged player? Only when it fits you apparently, all you do is strip features and add typical braindead "fixes" ("muh keybinds were TOO! HARD!"). Is it not super pretty code? It doesn't fricking matter because all you did was take it out because you were obsessing about it being 'unclean'. Your project is useless. Long live mplayer.
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4577

Anonymous 2022-09-27 (Tue) 23:40:15 No.17022

>>17021
>MPV shows signs of bitrot at an astonishing pace
wait what

Anonymous 2022-09-28 (Wed) 00:21:20 No.17024

>>17009
Google effectively owns Mozilla and would never allow this to happen. they will continue to internally sabotage it

Anonymous 2022-09-29 (Thu) 12:27:31 No.17040

>>17024
that's true but how would they sabotage firefox
what's a browser beyond chrome, chromium and firefox?

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