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webdawg

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 63

FIREFOX - MPLAYER instances stay in background

When I open youtube vids in Firefox I am having problems. Around 10 mplayer instances open up in the background after a video session all peaking the cpu at 100%.

I have to killall -s 9 mplayer to get them to leave.  I am using the HTML5 interface of youtube.

Should or can I replace the backend with gstreamer or something?

Anyone know how to fix this?

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89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: FIREFOX - MPLAYER instances stay in background

Firefox is using gstreamer by default. I don't know how you managed to plug mplayer in it but remove it from FF and it will work just fine with any HTML 5 website.

webdawg

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 63

Re: FIREFOX - MPLAYER instances stay in background

I was using the instructions here:  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91561

It has been working for about a year now but the mplayer instances are not being closed anymore for some reason.

It had nothing to do with firefox and the only reason I thought it did is because some javascript is crashing firefox.

I have to look into that now.

Thanks,

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webdawg

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 63

Re: FIREFOX - MPLAYER instances stay in background

I figured out that too.

it has to do with the nvidia driver that is fixed in the latest version but the latest version has not been released.

I had to disable hardware acceleration.