As neither Chrome/Chromium or Firefox has any real interest in Linux support can we get Ubuntu to apply the patch? The patch has existed for 5 years already.
Even a partial solution where its built in but you still have to enable it in config would be fine. Having to hunt down a ppa to get working video in 2019 on Linux is absurd. Otherwise users would be much better off moving to another distro that supports it such as Arch, Fedora, etc as noted above. -- 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/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding Status in Chromium Browser: Unknown Status in Mozilla Firefox: New 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: The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware decoding on Linux. Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding. How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this PPA ( using libVA ) : https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev the corresponding patch is here : 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+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
