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This is awesome, maybe we can get more user feedback for devices on hw video decoding. HW video decode on Linux (just for browsers) has dragged at a snail's pa

This is awesome, maybe we can get more user feedback for devices on hw video decoding. HW video decode on Linux (just for browsers) has dragged at a snail's pace for the longest time. Firefox seems to take the lead in this regard but Chromium is just terrible. Chromium devs create flags that break hw video every few months or so (and when the flags break you are forced to go on a random easter egg hunt to find out how to make hw video work again) and currently has a bug that leads to a memory leak. Sigh.

random_mutex 3y ago
> Chromium devs create flags that break hw video every few months or so (and when the flags break you are forced to go on a random easter egg hunt to find out how to make hw video work again) and currently has a bug that leads to a memory leak. Sigh. The Xorg leak was awful, it took me three days to find its cause.
- Timber-6539 3y ago
  I get this problem on Xwayland which is the only way [0] to enable HW video decode on official Chromium binaries on Wayland ATM. Am on Arch and if the Chrome team doesn't fix the issue in future releases I just might give this workaround [1] a chance. [0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1326754 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132675... [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-wayland-vaapi https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-wayland-vaapi
  - abrouwers 3y ago
    This caused me to switch to FF. But, now I have native, well-functioning wayland & vaapi - wish I had switched sooner!
pjmlp 3y ago
Once upon a time my Asus 1215B sold with Linux had drivers where everything worked, then came WiFi driver rewrite forcing months of LAN cable (but it was FOSS), then came AMD driver rewrite forcing software rendering and lower GL support (but it was FOSS), then came ... but it was FOSS. Nowadays it is the remaining device that still has GNU/Linux on it, mostly because it is an aging netbook and I can't be bothered to install anything else on it before it dies. Lets see how well Firefox 115 works on it.
- Timber-6539 3y ago
  The more things change the more they stay the same. Thanks for this short anecdote. Wondering what kernel version you run that old device on :)
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Nowadays, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. All those issues were coming up during various updates since 2009.

random_mutex 3y ago

> Chromium devs create flags that break hw video every few months or so (and when the flags break you are forced to go on a random easter egg hunt to find out how to make hw video work again) and currently has a bug that leads to a memory leak. Sigh. The Xorg leak was awful, it took me three days to find its cause.

Timber-6539 3y ago
I get this problem on Xwayland which is the only way [0] to enable HW video decode on official Chromium binaries on Wayland ATM. Am on Arch and if the Chrome team doesn't fix the issue in future releases I just might give this workaround [1] a chance. [0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1326754 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132675... [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-wayland-vaapi https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-wayland-vaapi
- abrouwers 3y ago
  This caused me to switch to FF. But, now I have native, well-functioning wayland & vaapi - wish I had switched sooner!

pjmlp 3y ago

Once upon a time my Asus 1215B sold with Linux had drivers where everything worked, then came WiFi driver rewrite forcing months of LAN cable (but it was FOSS), then came AMD driver rewrite forcing software rendering and lower GL support (but it was FOSS), then came ... but it was FOSS. Nowadays it is the remaining device that still has GNU/Linux on it, mostly because it is an aging netbook and I can't be bothered to install anything else on it before it dies. Lets see how well Firefox 115 works on it.

Timber-6539 3y ago
The more things change the more they stay the same. Thanks for this short anecdote. Wondering what kernel version you run that old device on :)
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Nowadays, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. All those issues were coming up during various updates since 2009.