** Description changed: - The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware - decoding on Linux. + This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux + browsers. - Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding. + In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery + drained when playing video in browser was crazy. - How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this - PPA ( using libVA ) : + In july 2020, things are getting better : - https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev + - Chromium : - the corresponding patch is here : + A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this + patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1816497 - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/chromium-browser/chromium- - browser.trusty.beta/view/head:/debian/patches/enable_vaapi_on_linux.diff - that would be great if we could have this patch indefault Ubuntu - chromium build, this situation is really sad right now, google use linux - to make chromeOS so chromebook are really good at playing videos but - GNU/Linux chromium is slow at doing it. + - Firefox : + + Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is + possible and X11 is possible in nightly ! + + Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727 + + We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding + available in Stable.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding Status in Chromium Browser: Unknown Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in chromium-browser package in CentOS: Unknown Bug description: This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux browsers. In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery drained when playing video in browser was crazy. In july 2020, things are getting better : - Chromium : A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1816497 - Firefox : Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is possible and X11 is possible in nightly ! Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727 We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding available in Stable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
