Watch universal+ movies on firefox is a weird experience

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i recently went back to use a subscription that comes with my data plan, it is one of those websites offering mostly content from universal + and a bunch of paid content from the isp

i watched a couple movies, it required to enable the drm on the web browser, no problem on that

my problem is with the playback, when there is movement, it gives me that weird feeling of 24hz or slower content on higher refresh rate monitors, some movies are worse than others(perhaps less fast movement)

im sure is that its not the internet connection, that is a gigabit connection and is not having problems atm

my tv at 1080p 60hz is what im using to watch the content

youtube and local stored content works just fine, but this content inside the web browser, it is annoying to watch it like that

am i alone on this situation or perhaps there is something i could do to improve the viewing experience?

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Have you installed all the codecs by following RPM Fusion ?

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thank you for the reply

it seems i had installed those rpm fusion, since i had to do it on fedora 43 so vlc could play videos

it points me to multiple details, im trying to follow the steps, it is a bit confusing tbh because some things were already installed, others point to things i never done on other distros, i feel lost on seting up rpm fusion

i will restart after installing the amd vesa, and will test again

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You can also check to see if FIrefox is using hardware decoding by
putting about:support#media in the Firefox address bar.

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well, i restarted pc, ran tests, same problem, i tested with lower refresh rate, from 60hz to 23 and 24, it was even worse, it felt like move was going at like 15hz

i guess the content itself on that site is like that, because i tested in librewolf with the same results

my question was mostly focused to if there is something you can do with such content, not blaming fedora or anything, because i tried on my win 11 pc running brave and it is a bit better, but that pc has better specs, a gpu and still is see some of that choppiness like it had lower fps, for call it some way

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I do love my Firefox, but can you test in chromium to see how it works there?

It should not require high specs at all to play, any CPU in the last 15 years should do it.

Then test some other providers like YouTube to see if they play properly.

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thank you for your reply, i do not use chrome, but all web browser use now the chrome engine so all are the same now, as proved when testing on another pc on win 11

as mentioned in the begining, youtube, no problem, the question is strictly about universal + content via web browser, that does seem to be problematic on most os

one thing that is better is brightness on win 11, at 100% brightness is clearer than it is here in fedora at 100%

while following some suggestions from here and from this link

this setting in about: config set to true media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled

and media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled set to true seem to have improved things

but i do think it is more about the content itself on universal + that is not the greatest quality, refresh rate or bitrate

it is something i dont find much information about, because if you look for universal + content on firefox, google doesnt deliver anything useful really, i assume few use this service and even fewer tried to look for a answer when seeing problems on any os or web browser