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> 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 h
by 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 agoI 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 agoThis caused me to switch to FF. But, now I have native, well-functioning wayland & vaapi - wish I had switched sooner!