Use chromium bundled with New Raspbian PIXEL version 2016-09-23

[guysoft]

Ok good news. Looks like the Pi foundation released a new build of chromium that they are bundling with the official RaspberryPI. See release note:s for 2016-09-23. * Chromium web browser included. It seems like it will also use the hardware acceleration in the Pi for video playback. So this fixes a lot of issues at once This has a potential to fix the following issues:

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[rojepp]

Looking forward to this. Wish I knew how to help.. :-/

[guysoft]

At the moment the build is getting Hash Sum mismatch errors, so we need to wait till the repos start working again.

[tailorvj]

It seems like we'd forecast the PIXEL release :) It also includes VNC and node.js out of the box

[anthonywebb]

Has this been integrated yet in the nightly builds? We are trying to set up some devices but would prefer to have the latest and greatest

[anthonywebb]

@guysoft you think fullpageos will work with this latest release from pi foundation? I'd like to give it a try when it is ready. Thanks!

[anthonywebb]

For those of you hoping that the new chromium build would solve the mp4 playback issues, it appears to have helped a bit, but its in no way a replacement for omxplayer, the new pixel interface is great though

[guysoft]

Ok, So here is a new build, I didn't pay with the chromium installation yet, so I encourage you guys to try and install the PIXEL installation which should be in the repos: image: http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/nightly/2016-10-20_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.7.0.zip md5 http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/nightly/2016-10-20_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.7.0.zip.md5

[guysoft]

Ok, had a chance to test that nightly, there dosn't seem to be anychromium-browser package, only rpi-chromium-mods which has a flashplugin in it. Any insight would he helpful

[NoviCMS]

Great, going to try the PIXEL installation!

[guysoft]

I made another PIXEL installation one with the full image, that could also be tested, since I can't see a package for the PIXEL chromium-browser available: http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/nightly/2016-10-23_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-0.7.0.zip http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/nightly/2016-10-23_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-0.7.0.zip.md5

[NoviCMS]

Oké, i a'm missing the hardware acceleration on my RPI 3, is there any way to enable this? are they working on it? Not only for video but also for CSS3 transitions and jquery animations.

Is it possible to make a epiphany-browser build? epiphany-browser seems to do things much better.

[guysoft]

@NoviCMS

1. What image are you using out of the 2?
2. How are you testing for acceleration? Are you talking about 2D or 3D?

[NoviCMS]

@guysoft 1: i am using the first image and the master branch 2: i am using the image for my RPI kiosk with touchscreen. (24" 1080p with toch overlay) This is my test site: http://in2shop.staging.novisites.nl/shop/526842 when opening a menu or scrolling down the page it becomes laggy. (i have tested many distro's on RPI3)

[NoviCMS]

going to try 2016-10-23_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-0.7.0.zip now. i hope the jpg bug is fixed.

[NoviCMS]

This build: 2016-10-23_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-0.7.0.zip is by far the best i have seen till now. maybe you could create a build from this one? if i boot the image the browser does not start. also fullpageos.local is not set.

Also the jpg bug is fixed in this release.

[guysoft]

@NoviCMS

1. Can you be specific to what is good there?
2. The browser does not start in 2016-10-23_2016-09-23-fullpageos-jessie-0.7.0.zip? if so why is it the best?

[NoviCMS]

Hey @guysoft

1: video's play smooth(er), jps are displayed, overall experiënce is better. 2: The browser does not start automatically after boot, i was able to start it using the menu.

Needs editing: boot splashscreen, browser start, remove gui (menu background etc.) fix fullpageos.local

[NoviCMS]

@guysoft can you create a img from the PIXEL installation with the full image with working fullpageos.local, and browser start?

[NoviCMS]

@guysoft i see that the build has gone wrong, at the base there is a folder "filesystem" in there are the config files etc.... i will try to cp all to /

[guysoft]

If there is a menu it means the special lightdm session isn't starting. Thats the problem.

[NoviCMS]

no success so far, i will look into it in a couple of days

[matt7277]

Using the 10/23 Nightly build on a RaspberryPi 3 and also noticing that Chromium fails to launch. If you launch manually, the http://localhost/Welcome and http://localhost/FullPageDashboard do Not load. Is there a way to start these (maybe a service?) via shell script?

[guysoft]

This is known, it requires to change how the custom session starts on pixel. Again, help would be great because I am busy with my startup company.

[guysoft]

New image ( 2016-11-25) was released, and has this written as a change: Updates to hardware video acceleration in Chromium browser

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/release_notes.txt

Will build a nightly with it so we can see if it changes anything