Xpra: Ticket #1463: html5 video support enabled by default

Hopefully we can find at least one browser / OS combination that works? Or figure out the problem with broadway? (RangeError: Source is too large)

Original tickets: #1341, #1424



Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:38:52 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed

Looks like we may also need to special case phones and tablets: HTMLMediaElement.play() Returns a Promise and turn off video if it requires user interaction to play.


Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:33:35 GMT - Antoine Martin:


Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:07:24 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

No time for this, re-scheduling.


Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:40:37 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Since this isn't making any progress, turn it off until someone fixes it: r16672


Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:07:31 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed


Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:22:01 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Links that may help:


Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:34:18 GMT - Antoine Martin:

New links:


Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:21:54 GMT - Antoine Martin:

These plans may be scuppered by chrome: Chrome 66 will try to block unwanted noisy autoplaying video


Sun, 13 May 2018 05:38:36 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Moving broadway decoding to #1839.


Sat, 01 Dec 2018 08:10:30 GMT - Dennis Schridde: cc set


Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:22:15 GMT - Antoine Martin:

This could still be used but triggered by the user using a click on an "acceleration option"?

See also #2165


Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:48:28 GMT - Antoine Martin:

New "preloading" option idea: prepare a video context whenever we get a user event (click in window) then tell the server that we support more encodings (ie: h264+mp4) and use it when we get a new stream.


Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:45:44 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

Same as #2165, needs help.


Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:12:43 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed


Sun, 04 Oct 2020 13:00:12 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

No help forthcoming so no progress likely.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:24:58 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1463