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jansmolders86
Raspberry Pi: Browser without X directly on FB
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.
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...
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
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.
That does look promising! What a great find! I'll definitely try that and see how it preforms!
Perhaps the wayland version of chromium would work better for this? https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland
