Can we have a statement why this patch is not added? The lack of it
kills using low power CPUs (and debian) for youtube et all.
Arch and Fedora both have a separate package called "chromium-vaapi",
maybe this would be acceptable in debian aswell?
I just tested it: When applying the patch, you need to add
"--disable-accelerated-video-decode" to default flags, as the present
default flag "--ignore-gpu-blacklist" seems to enable hardware
accelerated video decode (according to about:gpu).
So please consider adding the patch and also set
As I have noticed now, these patch has been applied once:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793815
but was shortly after disabled again:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804901
I think completely disabling the code path was not the right decision,
as the patch
Package: chromium
Version: 56.0.2924.76-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Chromium is really inefficient at playing back videos due to hardware
accelerated decoding being forbidden on linux thus yielding high cpu usage, you
can read about the upstream
bug here:
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