Bug#856255: chromium: Enable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" flag

2017-02-27 Thread e1526425
I just tested it: When applying the patch, you need to add "--disable-accelerated-video-decode" to default flags, as the present default flag "--ignore-gpu-blacklist" seems to enable hardware accelerated video decode (according to about:gpu). So please consider adding the patch and also set th

Bug#856255: chromium: Enable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" flag

2017-02-27 Thread Esokrates
As I have noticed now, these patch has been applied once: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793815 but was shortly after disabled again: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804901 I think completely disabling the code path was not the right decision, as the patch onl

Bug#856255: chromium: Enable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" flag

2017-02-26 Thread Esokrates
Package: chromium Version: 56.0.2924.76-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Chromium is really inefficient at playing back videos due to hardware accelerated decoding being forbidden on linux thus yielding high cpu usage, you can read about the upstream bug here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/ch