Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG
by pvg on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:06PM
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With non-flash videos? Hasn't been my experience under OS X, at least. Tiny gifv videos just play. 1080p, 60p video doesn't turn on the fans.
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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:12AM
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A dozen imgur tabs with a single gifv each have caused me notable background CPU use in Firefox. A dozen tabs with gifs in them don't.
That doesn't really count. A dozen tabs in Firefox might also give you a rash, the solution is to probably stop using Firefox not to convert videos to gifs.
Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG
by j3097736 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:18PM
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That's not a fair comparison with gif/apng if the thing can pick between webm or mp4 to get hardware acceleration and start/stop off-screen videos.
Why is it not a fair comparison? A page full of gifs in a browser gobbles bandwidth, can't be interrupted, eats lots of cpu. A page full of gifvs doesn't have any of these problems. One of these is a lousy user experience, the other one is not. I don't have to make both of these things a shitty user experience just so the comparison is 'fair'.