Package: chromium Version: 44.0.2403.107-1 Severity: wishlist By default Chromium doesn't support accelerated video decoding on desktop Linux, but with a few tweaks to the source etc it can easily be enabled due to the support in ChromeOS (using VAAPI). I think the situation is that upstream just don't have anyone prepared to maintain it properly in non-ChromeOS Linux at the moment, and earlier issues about it being unstable in Linux are obsolete.
IMO chromium is severely hampered without this feature. It needs quite a modern/high-end CPU to be able to play HD at full speed, and even if you have one it can cause unwanted fan noise. There is an Ubuntu PPA for Chromium Beta which has VAAPI enabled at <https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-beta>. I've tried using it to watch a few youtube videos on a few machines (including using the VDPAU backend for VAAPI with an AMD GPU) and it worked well on all of them. The patches the PPA adds to the source look quite simple, just changing a few #ifs to enable the code in other versions of Linux besides ChromeOS, and fixing the way the va library is opened (upstream were depending on hardcoded paths in ChromeOS). -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.29-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.16.0-2 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libcups2 2.0.3-6 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.18-1 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-6+b3 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.4-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.44.1-1.1 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1 ii libharfbuzz0b 0.9.41-1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.4.0-7 ii libnspr4 2:4.10.8-2 ii libnss3 2:3.19.2-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpci3 1:3.2.1-3 ii libspeechd2 0.8-7 ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1.2-1 ii libsrtp0 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1 ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2 ii libxi6 2:1.7.4-1+b2 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1+b1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.28-2+b2 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii x11-utils 7.7+3 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4 chromium recommends no packages. Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-l10n <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org