Package: chromium Severity: wishlist Chromium on linux doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding by default. There are however some simple patches available and the feature can be enabled/disabled via chrome://flags
This was in discussion before, but I don't understand what happened in the meantime: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793815 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium depends on: pn chromium-common <none> ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.0-2 ii libavcodec57 7:3.3.4-2+b2 ii libavformat57 7:3.3.4-2+b2 ii libavutil55 7:3.3.4-2+b2 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libcairo2 1.15.8-2 ii libcups2 2.2.5-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.11.22-1 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libexpat1 2.2.3-1 ii libflac8 1.3.2-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.3-0.2 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-0.1 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-12 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libharfbuzz0b 1.6.2-1 ii libicu57 57.1-8 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.2-2 ii liblcms2-2 2.8-4 ii libminizip1 1.1-8+b1 ii libnspr4 2:4.16-1 ii libnss3 2:3.33-1 ii libopus0 1.2.1-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.12-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.12-1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.34-1 ii libpulse0 11.1-1 pn libre2-3 <none> ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.7-1 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-12 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3 ii libwebp6 0.6.0-3 ii libwebpdemux2 0.6.0-3 ii libwebpmux3 0.6.0-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-3 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-5 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2.2 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1+b2 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages chromium recommends: ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-5 Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-driver <none> pn chromium-l10n <none> pn chromium-shell <none> pn chromium-widevine <none>
