Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

[megaman]

https://archive.org/details/sg_Mortal_K ... be#loading

Loads slow on my browser.

[Sajadi]

Same here, not really useable.

But: Runs also slow in Otter-Browser and IE11 - Also in Chromium based Vivaldi browser.

[megaman]

Odd: It also runs slow in Maxthon, like you said with IE, but Cyberfox runs it close to acceptable.

[Night Wing]

Loads fast on my 5 year old desktop computer. Page loaded in about 3 seconds of time.

But this desktop computer is running 64 bit linux Pale Moon 25.3.0 in 64 bit linux Mint 17.

[Sajadi]

Perhaps some specific Firefox only Javascript enhancement? The faq to the emulator says it runs best with Firefox - and i am pretty sure they do mean recent Firefox versions.

[megaman]

Loads fast on my 5 year old desktop computer. Page loaded in about 3 seconds of time.

But this desktop computer is running 64 bit linux Pale Moon 25.3.0 in 64 bit linux Mint 17.

Noooooo, I was referring to the video.
The site loads fast as well for me.

[Sajadi]

Pretty sure it is something browser specific - there are also WebGL/HTML5 demos which are only watchable on Chrome/Chromium and only limited working on Firefox.

Other option would be that parts of Archive org just load damn slow

[Night Wing]

Noooooo, I was referring to the video.
The site loads fast as well for me.

Oops.

After clicking on the video, the video is real sloooooooow.

[jb28147]

It isn't a video, it's an emulation of the game.

Tab to open up the menu.

Press 1 to start the game.

Very unresponsive, however.

[Moonchild]

It's archive.org
It's for archival purposes -- don't expect streaming capabilities?

[megaman]

Tried Chromium, latest today, and it wouldn't even play. After all, it is an Alpha Stage, so I expected as such, just a black screen.
The closest to Chrome that I would ever use/try is SRWIron and it ran it just like Cyberfox, almost smooth but still laggy.

It's archive.org
It's for archival purposes -- don't expect streaming capabilities?

I'm bringing this up because it would come around sooner or later from someone else.
Also, if there is anything we can do from the browser-side of things to get this working, or at least improve the quality.

[Moonchild]

On the browser side of things there could only be a change to how much is pre-buffered before streaming -- and I'd rather buffer less and have a video start sooner than to buffer more just so unintended streaming use of an archival site can be satisfied. I hope you can understand where I'm coming from here,

[Sajadi]

Btw. it is no video, it is a game emulation so buffering makes no difference in this example

[Moonchild]

Game emulation. Because that is what a web browser is for

[Sajadi]

Game emulation. Because that is what a web browser is for

Also, a browser is no state of the art multimedia player

On a more serious note... Mozilla is not only wanting Firefox to be the perfect multimediaplayer, social networking/Audio-Videochat browser, they are following since a while also the goal to offer best support for online games inside the browser.

So, they just added additional bloat which does not work on other browsers or only in a limited way. First they strip away customization out of the browser and afterwards they fill their browser with crap - makes zero sense

[Moonchild]

On a more serious note... Mozilla is not only wanting Firefox to be the perfect multimediaplayer, social networking/Audio-Videochat browser, they are following since a while also the goal to offer best support for online games inside the browser.

You know what they say about jacks-of-all-trades: they are never going to be good at anything.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

You know what they say about jacks-of-all-trades: they are never going to be good at anything.

Off-topic:
There is one exception to that rule I can think of but ONLY one.