Use chromium bundled with New Raspbian PIXEL version 2016-09-23 #75

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guysoft opened this Issue Sep 30, 2016 · 24 comments

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@guysoft
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guysoft commented Sep 30, 2016

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:
#66 #29 #22

@rojepp
rojepp commented Sep 30, 2016

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

@guysoft
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guysoft commented Sep 30, 2016

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

@tailorvj
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tailorvj commented Oct 4, 2016

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

@tailorvj tailorvj changed the title from Use chromium bumdled with New Raspbian version 2016-09-23 to Use chromium bundled with New Raspbian PIXEL version 2016-09-23 Oct 4, 2016
@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
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guysoft commented Oct 20, 2016

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
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guysoft commented Oct 23, 2016

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
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NoviCMS commented Oct 26, 2016

Great, going to try the PIXEL installation!

@guysoft
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guysoft commented Oct 26, 2016

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
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NoviCMS commented Oct 26, 2016 edited

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
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guysoft commented Oct 26, 2016

@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
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NoviCMS commented Oct 26, 2016

@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
Contributor
NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016

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

@NoviCMS
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NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016 edited

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
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guysoft commented Oct 27, 2016

@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
Contributor
NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016 edited

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
Contributor
NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016

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

@NoviCMS
Contributor
NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016

@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
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guysoft commented Oct 27, 2016
@NoviCMS
Contributor
NoviCMS commented Oct 27, 2016

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
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guysoft commented Nov 13, 2016
@guysoft
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guysoft commented Dec 25, 2016

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

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