It looks like the old Chrome bug has been dead for a while: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440
But some newer bugs offer hope: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1121948 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1262051 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding Status in Chromium Browser: Unknown Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released 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: This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux browsers. In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery drained when playing video in browser was crazy. In july 2020, things are getting better : - Chromium : A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1816497 - Firefox : Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is possible and X11 is possible in nightly ! Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727 We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding available in Stable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
