Comment 9 for bug 1424201

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote : Re: Chromium does not use the GPU to decode videos

The current upstream effort is tracked at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294. However it doesn't seem to be getting much traction. I am reluctant to distro-patching as it's a rather large patch that often gets outdated with new chromium versions, with non-trivial conflicts to solve that sometimes involve re-architecting.

I am in the process of transitioning to snaps as the official way of getting chromium updates on Ubuntu. Once that's complete the maintenance burden will be largely alleviated and I might consider maintaining that patch.