As stated by Daniel, the problem is one of maintenance. Maintaining a patch against a large and fast-moving code base such as chromium has a cost, which is why it's always preferable to have such changes upstreamed.
As it is clear that upstream is not going to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux anytime soon (if ever), the distro patch is indeed the way to go. That fedora patch is relatively small and maintainable as it is today, so I'll update the snap package to include it (until now it was in a dedicated channel). In response to comment #92, there is a plan to deprecate the chromium- browser deb package in favour of the snap in the near future, so development and testing focus is on the snap. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
