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(Get the code!)
(In reply to Tony Houghton from comment #22)
> (In reply to Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya] from comment #19)
> > handle someone who has decided to make the video element move around in an
> > html page.
>
> Ick. But can't they also do that with canvases, so you would already have
> come up with some solution for WebGL?
Think about scrolling a video on a touch screen. The video needs to scroll coherently with the rest of the image as well as be able to support pinch-zoom. This becomes more difficult if the video is presented through a parallel presentation path as it would be with VDPAU. Ultimately the accelerated decoding on Linux doesn't match with Firefox's compositor model. In order to support accelerated decoding on Linux, someone needs to write some code to bridge that gap. It is not simply a matter of enabling acceleration.
> > They don't have to worry about compositing with any other objects, images or
>
> Actually they do, most of those other players can overlay GUIs etc on the
> video.
You are ignoring the simple fact that video players are architecturally simpler than browsers. Video players have no other purpose than playing video.
We are definitely interested in getting hardware acceleration to work on Linux. If it is as easy as you seem to think it is and you've got some spare time on your hands then it might be a fun project for you.