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[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

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From: Chris Cheney <1424201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:34:37 -0000
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wrt #91 which snaps might those be?

If its the regular 'chromium' snap it certainly doesn't make any mention
of the fact it supports hardware video acceleration or includes the
vaapi patch.


# snap info chromium
name:      chromium
summary:   Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome
publisher: Canonical✓
contact:   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bugs?field.tag=snap
license:   Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1 AND MIT AND MS-PL AND (GPL-2.0+ OR LGPL-2.1+ OR MPL-1.1)
description: |
  An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all
  Internet users to experience the web.
snap-id: XKEcBqPM06H1Z7zGOdG5fbICuf8NWK5R
channels:
  stable:    73.0.3683.75 2019-03-14 (660) 161MB -
  candidate: 73.0.3683.75 2019-03-13 (660) 161MB -
  beta:      73.0.3683.75 2019-03-13 (660) 161MB -
  edge:      74.0.3729.22 2019-03-20 (667) 162MB -

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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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