Comment 123 for bug 1424201

Yes, this bug affects me.

ср, 3 июл. 2019 г. в 05:54, Robert Mader <email address hidden>:

> Although this bug is only about decoding support, I'd like to leave a note
> about the rendering: AFAIK rendering without any slow copies requires
> DMABUF support, so processes can share resources on the GPU.
> For the Wayland backend this about to land, see bug 1552590, quote:
>
> > Wayland dmabuf surface are located in GPU and can be attached as
> EGLImage or wl_buffer. It allows direct rendering to GPU and share the
> HW buffer across processes.
>
> Also see bug 1010527
>
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>
> Title:
> Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
>
> Status in Chromium Browser:
> Unknown
> Status in Mozilla Firefox:
> Confirmed
> 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:
> The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware
> decoding on Linux.
>
> Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding.
>
> How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this
> PPA ( using libVA ) :
>
> https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev
>
> the corresponding patch is here :
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/chromium-browser/chromium-
> browser.trusty.beta/view/head:/debian/patches/enable_vaapi_on_linux.diff
>
> that would be great if we could have this patch indefault Ubuntu
> chromium build, this situation is really sad right now, google use
> linux to make chromeOS so chromebook are really good at playing videos
> but GNU/Linux chromium is slow at doing it.
>
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