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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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rather large patch that often gets outdated with new chromium versions,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.

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

Title:
  Chromium does not use the GPU to decode videos

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in chromium-browser 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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