Package: chromium
Version: 72.0.3626.53-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Debian folks,
Currently, Chromium under GNU/Linux does not use the GPU to decode
videos over the Video Acceleration API VA-API [1]. This wastes energy,
noticeable especially on laptops, where the battery won’t last as long,
when the main CPU is used instead.
I believe, it’s done with Chromebook and -boxes, as otherwise, they
wouldn’t be able to compete with other products.
There is a patch upstream [1], adding VA-API support.
The patch is out of date, but the distribution Fedora keeps it up to
date, and enable VA-API support in their package.
It’d be great if you did the same for the Debian package.
Kind regards,
Paul
[1]: https://github.com/intel/libva
[2]: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294/
[3]:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/c/278c62709d1dba5883c3b69047706837bb402bd7?branch=master
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii chromium-common 72.0.3626.53-1
ii libasound2 1.1.7-2
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libatomic1 8.2.0-14
ii libatspi2.0-0 2.30.0-5
ii libavcodec58 7:4.1-1
ii libavformat58 7:4.1-1
ii libavutil56 7:4.1-1
ii libc6 2.28-5
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-2
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-2
ii libcups2 2.2.10-3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.12-1
ii libdrm2 2.4.95-1
ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
ii libexpat1 2.2.6-1
ii libflac8 1.3.2-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3
ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-14
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.2-4
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.3-1
ii libharfbuzz0b 2.3.0-1
ii libicu63 63.1-5
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii liblcms2-2 2.9-3
ii libminizip1 1.1-8+b1
ii libnspr4 2:4.20-1
ii libnss3 2:3.41-1
ii libopenjp2-7 2.3.0-1.1
ii libopus0 1.3-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpci3 1:3.5.2-1
ii libpng16-16 1.6.36-3
ii libpulse0 12.2-3
ii libre2-5 20190101+dfsg-2
ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.7-1
ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-14
ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3
ii libwebp6 0.6.1-2
ii libwebpdemux2 0.6.1-2
ii libwebpmux3 0.6.1-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.15-2
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+dfsg1-7+b3
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.32-2
ii libxss1 1:1.2.3-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii chromium-sandbox 72.0.3626.53-1
Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn chromium-driver <none>
pn chromium-l10n <none>
pn chromium-shell <none>
Versions of packages chromium-common depends on:
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1
Versions of packages chromium-common recommends:
ii chromium-sandbox 72.0.3626.53-1
ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-9
ii gnome-shell [notification-daemon] 3.30.2-1
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 18.3.2-1
ii libu2f-udev 1.1.6-1
ii notification-daemon 3.20.0-4
ii upower 0.99.9-2
Versions of packages chromium-sandbox depends on:
ii libatomic1 8.2.0-14
ii libc6 2.28-5
ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-14
ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-14
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