1149369 - Add advanced options to control video playback

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

As a user, I want to be able to disable hardware acceleration so I can work around having a buggy video driver. It would also be helpful to set the maximum video size for software decoding (at least in MSE).

Comment 1

[Rene Sugar]

An additional video option to indicate a preference for HTML5 video (on Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) would be useful:

https://www.youtube.com/html5

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/MediaSourceExtensions#YouTube_integration

Youtube's cookie to indicate a preference for HTML5 video gets deleted if you have the preference to delete cookies when Firefox closes.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-html5-video/?src=search

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/976-youtube-right-side-description/code

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

hardware acceleration can be disabled by changing a pref ; not an MSE issue however