OpenH264 VS qTox

I've installed mpv but was unable to play any videos see this. Then I compiled and installed openh264 from github. Yet, I still have performance issues, video plays like a slide show..

The codecs are open source. Gstreamer. Ffmpeg. H264.

No, it is definitely using hardware acceleration on a number of platforms: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/encoder/core and https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/decoder/core. However, the docs say it will fallback to C/C++. But I don't believe that's happening on popular platforms like x86, ARM, and Aarch64.

I found the extension but haven't been able to get it to work yet. It needs openh264 installed and I haven't been able to figure out where to put the binary for it yet, but if you figure it out let me know! Lol :D

If you had the media.gmp.decoder.enabled pref flipped to true, I might have guessed that Firefox updated the OpenH264 plugin and downgraded it. You could try replacing the library from one at https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases/tag/v2.3.1. Go to about:support, open your profile directory, and find the gmp-gmpopenh264/1.8.1.2 folder. Replace the binary with the one from the linked github page. Restart Firefox.

Now that CISCO has released an Open Source H.264 Codec available on all major platforms what excuses does Blackmagic Design have left?

Outside of the hardware implementations, the other popular H.264 encoders are MainConcept (which I think Adobe licenses). There are a few others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Software_encoders. Cisco's OpenH264 is free, but last time I checked was limited in profile support. The repo claims "Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks".

If you go to https://github.com/qTox/qTox You will see the following: "Due to a lack of resources, qTox is no longer maintained. If someone with provable C++ experience and sufficient resources to maintain qTox wants to take over I'm happy to discuss that." So is someone going to "take over"? I really like qTox & would hate to see it go.

qTox https://qtox.github.io/ There is an android variant called aTox, not sure about mobile IOS.

Maybe something that uses the Tox network? Maybe qTox: https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox(p2p messaging?) failed: You can send files, but it looks like you can only open folders to look for files to send, not send folders themselves.

Tox (anonymous too, if routed through Tor) [clients like qTox might not be the "sexiest", but they are small and can be used almost anywhere]

What is Google? https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox does all that, even if screen sharing was a bit obscure years ago. Qtox won't work on iOS but there is an Android release. Big advantages: no server required, easy to use, secure, open source.