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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As stated by Daniel, the problem is one of maintenance. Maintaining a
patch against a large and fast-moving code base such as chromium has a
cost, which is why it's always preferable to have such changes
upstreamed.

As it is clear that upstream is not going to enable hardware-accelerated
video decoding on Linux anytime soon (if ever), the distro patch is
indeed the way to go.

That fedora patch is relatively small and maintainable as it is today,
so I'll update the snap package to include it (until now it was in a
dedicated channel).

In response to comment #92, there is a plan to deprecate the chromium-
browser deb package in favour of the snap in the near future, so
development and testing focus is on the snap.

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

Title:
  Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
  New
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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