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Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 01:50
by megaman

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 01:58
by Sajadi
Same here, not really useable.

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

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 02:08
by megaman
Odd: It also runs slow in Maxthon, like you said with IE, but Cyberfox runs it close to acceptable.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 02:09
by 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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 02:09
by 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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 02:11
by megaman
Night Wing wrote: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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 02:13
by 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 ;)

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 03:25
by Night Wing
megaman wrote:Noooooo, I was referring to the video.
The site loads fast as well for me.
Oops. :oops:

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

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 05:29
by 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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 09:53
by Moonchild
It's archive.org
It's for archival purposes -- don't expect streaming capabilities?

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 15:22
by 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.
Moonchild wrote: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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 15:51
by 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,

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 16:09
by Sajadi
Btw. it is no video, it is a game emulation so buffering makes no difference in this example ;)

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 16:19
by Moonchild
Game emulation. Because that is what a web browser is for ;)

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 16:25
by Sajadi
Moonchild wrote:Game emulation. Because that is what a web browser is for ;)
Also, a browser is no state of the art multimedia player :lol:

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 :D

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 16:48
by Moonchild
Sajadi wrote: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.

Re: Archive.org: Anyone experiencing lag on the video?

Posted: 2015-03-15, 22:07
by New Tobin Paradigm
Moonchild wrote: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.