Vaapi is not the only mechanism that can be used for hardware decode. V4l2 is an alternative, the one that will be used on the raspberry pi with the open source vc4 driver (see blog posts https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/2018/02/12/twiv/ ). I believe there is some communication between chromium and the pi makers about implementing this, but I am doubtful this will make it upstream.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799686 Title: Enable v4l2 hardware accelerated video decode Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Chromium browser is capable of decoding video via v4l2 codecs. ChromeOS uses this on arm devices to achieve good performance. Patches to enable this in Linux can be found here https://github.com/Igalia/chromium/commit/58cca7607828bbadc4e154dde36e9c96469ba2d0 and here https://github.com/Igalia/chromium/commit/c607620917eee5ff646b2daf304f6f133fb24ada To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1799686/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp