Bug#793815: chromium: Enable accelerated video decoding

2015-08-19 Thread Tony Houghton
There were some unrelated issues with using the Ubuntu version on Debian, so I took the patch and added it to the official Debian source package. It applies and builds cleanly, and works well as far as I can tell. I've attached it here. I think it's safe to include this patch from a stability

Bug#793815: chromium: Enable accelerated video decoding

2015-07-27 Thread Tony Houghton
Package: chromium Version: 44.0.2403.107-1 Severity: wishlist By default Chromium doesn't support accelerated video decoding on desktop Linux, but with a few tweaks to the source etc it can easily be enabled due to the support in ChromeOS (using VAAPI). I think the situation is that upstream just