Seems both statements are true :) The above patches relate to parts of the Chromium source named V4L2. But for the most efficient desktop video decoding you need to use VAAPI (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440).
I'm not sure those two are related, or that the former can be used to help desktop like the latter does. So the Bug Description is very confused at the moment. To resolve that confusion please log a bug with Chromium upstream requesting whatever you think is missing and we can then rely on upstream's answer: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799686 Title: Enable v4l2 hardware accelerated video decode Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Chromium browser is capable of decoding video via v4l2 codecs. ChromeOS uses this on arm devices to achieve good performance. Patches to enable this in Linux can be found here https://github.com/Igalia/chromium/commit/58cca7607828bbadc4e154dde36e9c96469ba2d0 and here https://github.com/Igalia/chromium/commit/c607620917eee5ff646b2daf304f6f133fb24ada To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1799686/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
