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Public bug reported:

The chromium team has done a great job to totally disabl 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.

** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201

Title:
  Chromium does not use the GPU to decode videos

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The chromium team has done a great job to totally disabl 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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