Public bug reported: Looking at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-overview-of-hardware- acceleration-in-chromium/36672, a couple of flags are added for beta and edge channel builds of Chromium to enable VAAPI.
You may want to remove the flag --video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer from the builds, as it completely breaks webcam input: ERROR:video_capture_impl.cc(501)] Failed to open GpuMemoryBuffer handle It can be worked around by creating ~/.chromium-browser.init and adding CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer" to it, but that is not exactly user friendly (and rather redundant). Upstream the Chromium developers say that the --video-capture-use-gpu- memory-buffer flag is broken and that packagers should no longer be using it. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40279468 >> Do the packagers need to be advised to remove this, or should the flags work as intended? > Yes. If you could inform them, please do so. On Chrome M116 that flag got broken, unfortunately. The flag had absolutely no effect before that, actually. In the future it will be enabled automatically when supported. So it's a good idea to remove that flag from the config for all versions. ** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Looking at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-overview-of-hardware- acceleration-in-chromium/36672, a couple of flags are added for beta and edge channel builds of Chromium to enable VAAPI. - You may want to remove the flag `--video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer` + You may want to remove the flag --video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer from the builds, as it completely breaks webcam input: ERROR:video_capture_impl.cc(501)] Failed to open GpuMemoryBuffer handle It can be worked around by creating ~/.chromium-browser.init and adding CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer" to it, but that is not exactly user friendly (and rather redundant). Upstream the Chromium developers say that the --video-capture-use-gpu- memory-buffer flag is broken and that packagers should no longer be using it. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40279468 >> Do the packagers need to be advised to remove this, or should the flags work as intended? > Yes. If you could inform them, please do so. On Chrome M116 that flag got broken, unfortunately. The flag had absolutely no effect before that, actually. In the future it will be enabled automatically when supported. So it's a good idea to remove that flag from the config for all versions. -- 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/2052624 Title: Stop using --video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer flag in beta/edge builds Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Looking at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-overview-of-hardware- acceleration-in-chromium/36672, a couple of flags are added for beta and edge channel builds of Chromium to enable VAAPI. You may want to remove the flag --video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer from the builds, as it completely breaks webcam input: ERROR:video_capture_impl.cc(501)] Failed to open GpuMemoryBuffer handle It can be worked around by creating ~/.chromium-browser.init and adding CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer" to it, but that is not exactly user friendly (and rather redundant). Upstream the Chromium developers say that the --video-capture-use-gpu- memory-buffer flag is broken and that packagers should no longer be using it. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40279468 >> Do the packagers need to be advised to remove this, or should the flags work as intended? > Yes. If you could inform them, please do so. On Chrome M116 that flag got broken, unfortunately. The flag had absolutely no effect before that, actually. In the future it will be enabled automatically when supported. So it's a good idea to remove that flag from the config for all versions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/2052624/+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
