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Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 by gpvos on Saturday July 30, 2016 @10:16AM (#12193055)
I agree and understand; I was being a bit facetious there. However, I actually still don't quite understand why browsers can play video and audio. I much rather play those in dedicated software, to the extent that I regularly view the source of such pages to figure out the URL of the media to be played. I guess this is because of ease of use for the average user, and occasionally for DRM, but it annoys me to no end. Playing all video or audio in the same software means a much better and consistent user interface for things like rewind, pause, full screen, etc.
Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 by adrusi on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:20AM (#12193317)
Definitely agree. If you want a remedy for the specific problem of audio and video, you could come up with some browser + youtube-dl integration. I've been using such a setup for the past year, watching web audio and video in mpv. It's great to have a consistent video player interface, as you said, but you also get powerful features you don't often see in web players, like gamma adjustment, playback speed control and an audio compressor.