[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 89764] Prefer PluginDocument over MediaDocument

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89764





--- Comment #7 from Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>  2012-06-22 12:27:08 PST ---
Regarding improving the <video> handling to use Xv hardware acceleration:

After some discussion, this seems unlikely to happen. 

The existing maintainer would not be willing to maintain such code, and is not really keen on the idea of a co-maintainer looking after it either.

It also seems like it would be impossible: <video> elements need to blend with the page, can have CSS transformations applied, etc. However, Xv does not support this, and applying transformations and so on is not realistic because Xv must render to its own X window.

If we are going to land something to fix this that is of use to OLPC, it needs to either be the default, or configurable at runtime. We use distribution packages from Fedora so changing compile time options is unfortunately not an option.

Sorry if this is a pain - but it seems like <video> is powerful enough that it mandates the use of OpenGL or similar for good performance, and we're in the process of moving around 2 million users to webkit on a low-power platform that can't run OpenGL. For this reason it seems most sensible for us to focus on the plugin experience as before.

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