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jansmolders86 / mediacenterjs

A HTML/CSS/Javascript (NodeJS) based Media center
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Raspberry Pi: Browser without X directly on FB #67

Open jansmolders86 opened 10 years ago

jansmolders86 commented 10 years ago

Due to the fact that midori or chromium use X to run, they are very slow on the Raspberry Pi. Even Luakit is way to slow for MediacenterJS to run.

We need to find a browser that runs directly on the framebuffer to improve performance but still maintain support for javascript and HTML5.

Karnith commented 10 years ago

Have you had a look at omx player? look at this http://www.raspberrypi.org/tag/omxplayer/ and this http://www.menaversity.com/view_page.php?id=18. looks promising...

jansmolders86 commented 10 years ago

I have actually, funny enough the transcoding isnt the biggest issue. Its the lack of hardware accelerated browsers and overhead of x that makes the raspberry a difficult platform sadly

Jon889 commented 10 years ago

This looks like it might be helpful: http://blog.barisione.org/2014-09/rpi-browser/ but as far as I can see it doesn't use the frame buffer directly.

jansmolders86 commented 10 years ago

That does look promising! What a great find! I'll definitely try that and see how it preforms!

SamuelTilly commented 8 years ago

Perhaps the wayland version of chromium would work better for this? https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland