Split: What’s the point of the Electron player?

[Member blur13]

PPC,

Whats the point of Electron player? Since its electron based, how is it any different from watching in Chrome? As always, interested in your tips for getting more mileage out of old hardware.

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi all,
lately VLC is off my list of recommends, good application but very CPU
heavy and pulls in some systemd cruft.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Hi popire, welcome to the forum !

ModdIt wrote:

and pulls in some systemd cruft

it shouldn’t. From which source did you download it? Might a dmo version (deb multimedia.org)?

[Member ModdIt]

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Thanks caprea,
I stand corrected.
just did a simulated install,
quite possibly was a Debian DMO version.

Since then clean installed latest antiX as sid version.

[Member PPC]

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blur13 wrote:

Whats the point of Electron player? Since its electron based, how is it any different from watching in Chrome?

This is a bit off topic, but, since I mentioned this in the first place: simply put, E.P. works wonders, playing YouTube, Netflix and Amazon prime videos on my old single core netbook- a friend of mine tested that for me – it works almost flawlessly, which Chromium can’t – it stutters a lot, on DRM videos, on this old device- on more recent PCs, probably you won’t notice any difference.
Also on the security side: having a dedicated browser to stream DRM video means that you do not have to install DRM in Chromium based browsers or Firefox- reducing vunerabilities in your main browser.
Also on the ease of use- if you setup a .desktop file for E.P.- a user without any computer knowlege (ex: a young kid, only used to mobile devices) can click it’s entry, then click the intended Video Service and it starts playing instantly (of course, after first setting up user accounts, for DRMed services- you can access youtube for free using it, without setting up any account- it’s not add free, like SMtube, but it’s the same user experience as most people are used to, on mobile devices – setting YT to use 360p should ensure smooth video player on almost any still working computer)

P.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by Brian Masinick.
• This reply was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by PPC.

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