[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
It looks like the old Chrome bug has been dead for a while: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440 But some newer bugs offer hope: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1121948 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1262051 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Indeed, before closing the firefox task for this bug, we need to look into the situation with the deb package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Could we track the firefox deb OOTB support ? IMO FF deb still does not use the GPU OOTB to decode video. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Yes indeed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Tracking in bug 1947115 for the Firefox snap, although once fixed that's probably enough to close this one for Firefox too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Description changed: - The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware - decoding on Linux. + This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux + browsers. - Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding. + In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery + drained when playing video in browser was crazy. - How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this - PPA ( using libVA ) : + In july 2020, things are getting better : - https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev + - Chromium : - the corresponding patch is here : + A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this + patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1816497 - 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. + - Firefox : + + Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is + possible and X11 is possible in nightly ! + + Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727 + + We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding + available in Stable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Changed in: firefox Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
It looks like the VAAPI version is gone from the snap store again. Is there some reason why this hasn't been merged yet as mentioned in #96? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
If anyone's interested, I've attempted to add VP9 support to the VDPAU/VA-API wrapper for NVIDIA here: https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9 Testers are welcome. I've used it successfully on 19.10 with chromium-vaapi. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Launchpad has imported 24 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2015-10-02T10:01:00+00:00 Jyavenard-9 wrote: This would do decoding only ; not rendering (yet) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/7 On 2015-10-02T10:33:11+00:00 RussianNeuroMancer wrote: Hardware decoding on Intel Ironlake should be used only for 720p and lower. Hardware 1080p decoding on Intel Ironlake is slower than software decoding on CPU: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47858 GPU model from about:support Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile I need to fill separate issue about VA-API on Ironlake or drop this info here is fine? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/8 On 2015-10-02T12:42:52+00:00 Jyavenard-9 wrote: (In reply to russianneuromancer from comment #1) > Hardware decoding on Intel Ironlake should be used only for 720p and lower. > Hardware 1080p decoding on Intel Ironlake is slower than software decoding > on CPU: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47858 > > GPU model from about:support > Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile > > I need to fill separate issue about VA-API on Ironlake or drop this info > here is fine? We have a generic preference to disable hardware acceleration, I'll hook it up to vaapi, but I have no intention at this stage to make specific cases for particular chipset. Would have to be in a separate bug. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/9 On 2016-07-06T04:29:09+00:00 Ajones-m wrote: Mass change P2 -> P3 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/52 On 2016-07-06T09:06:19+00:00 sheepdestro...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the priority would go from P2 to P3? Lack of hardware acceleration is the worse offender on Linux right now. Some youtube videos can not even play at a decent framerate because of that, especially the 4K / 360 ones. And that's without speaking of the heat generated by those poor CPUs... I do not get why it would not even go the other way, right to P1 ? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/53 On 2016-07-11T06:18:47+00:00 Ajones-m wrote: See bug 1210726. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/54 On 2016-08-11T18:00:44+00:00 agm97 wrote: linux had have the firefox browser by default in all distros I think much users of firefox are from linux and the only thing we get from mozilla a long waiting for a feature that is very needed.. between google with chromium and the denied featured requests and firefox not to working on features for firefox, linux in browser category is very late and the battery for laptops is damaged with linux and video viewing with browsers, I feel really annoying Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/58 On 2016-09-23T23:46:01+00:00 Melroy van den Berg wrote: I fully agree, video acceleration is a must have feature now a days. Please solve it! Don't force me to move to Chrome Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/75 On 2016-11-14T12:45:36+00:00 Waz wrote: I still have hope too to see full VDPAU/VAAVI support in order to have hardware video acceleration. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/77 On 2016-11-18T21:41:36+00:00 Ehumphries wrote: Gentle reminder: * Our guidelines ask you don't argue about priority setting on bugs. Triage leads and Mozillians working on the bug set the priority. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html * "Me too" or "Fix this or I'm moving to Chrome/Lynx/Gopher/Edge/Webkit" comments are off topic and just add noise. Reply
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Changed in: firefox Importance: Medium => Unknown ** Changed in: firefox Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: firefox Remote watch: Mozilla Bugzilla #563206 => Mozilla Bugzilla #1210727 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Changed in: firefox Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Changed in: firefox Importance: Wishlist => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
The vaapi-enabled snap currently lives in the candidate/vaapi channel, which was automatically closed due to lack of updates, but an update bringing it to the latest stable version is pending publication, so it will soon be re-opened and available. Once confirmed this works as expected, I plan to merge this branch into the stable one, at which point a separate channel won't be required. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
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 - -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Last I heard, Ubuntu "applying the patch" wasn't feasible because it kept breaking due to upstream changes in Chromium. It's not a patch we can carry without someone volunteering to maintain it. But oSoMoN is the expert here and will have more current information... P.S. You can watch YouTube videos with hardware acceleration (and no need for patches) using these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntelQuickSyncVideo#YouTube -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Good to know. What is downside of enabling hardware acceleration in deb packages too? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
There are snap packages in Ubuntu that enable hardware video acceleration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Fedora started enabling video acceleration in this build late last year: * Tue Nov 27 2018 Tom Callaway - 70.0.3538.110-2 - enable vaapi support (thanks to Akarshan Biswas for doing the hard work here) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
As neither Chrome/Chromium or Firefox has any real interest in Linux support can we get Ubuntu to apply the patch? The patch has existed for 5 years already. Even a partial solution where its built in but you still have to enable it in config would be fine. Having to hunt down a ppa to get working video in 2019 on Linux is absurd. Otherwise users would be much better off moving to another distro that supports it such as Arch, Fedora, etc as noted above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
FYI Fedora has now included the VAAPI https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/c/278c62709d1dba5883c3b69047706837bb402bd7?branch=master -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Launchpad has imported 75 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2010-05-02T04:15:47+00:00 ryan14 wrote: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3 There should be a feature that enables HTML5 video to use GPU acceleration so this will take stress off the CPU. It should work on Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora, etc, and it should work with all graphics cards including onboard video. Reproducible: Always Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/0 On 2010-05-02T04:27:49+00:00 Mardeg-5 wrote: This may depend on or be a dupe of bug 556027 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/1 On 2010-05-02T08:23:24+00:00 Jo-hermans wrote: This is filed before, and even partially implemented (see bug 555839 for instance), but there's still lots of work to do. Especially on the cross-platform behaviour (most work is done in the windows side at the moment). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/2 On 2010-05-02T23:07:55+00:00 Nickolay Ponomarev wrote: Also see bug 495727. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/3 On 2015-10-18T18:10:04+00:00 N. W. wrote: Hello, I was surprised to see that GStreamer is no longer needed for video playback and that only FFmpeg/Libav is needed now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207429 Which is very nice. But I have a question: There's a bug regarding hardware accelerated video playback with GStreamer, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894372 So, I was hoping that Firefox would support fully hardware accelerated video playback now that GStreamer is no longer required and went ahead and installed the latest Firefox Nightly 44.0a1 on Ubuntu 15.04 to test it. Video playback indeed was working without GStreamer, but the video playback still didn't seem to be fully hardware accelerated ;(. Why is that? Why is the video playback on Linux still not fully hardware accelerated :(? Regards Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/7 On 2015-11-16T16:27:43+00:00 sheepdestro...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on Fedora 23, ffmpeg and vaapi libs installed. Intel Sandy-Bridge hd3000. HW decoding with libva works in native apps. Testing FF 45 nightly , in about:support I see : "Supports Hardware H264 Decoding No;" Is there a way to test that ffmpeg is in fact used ? And for for HW accel? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/8 On 2015-11-16T17:47:49+00:00 Lhenry wrote: Jean-Yves, can you help answer? We could also maybe document this on SUMO. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/9 On 2015-11-17T09:11:05+00:00 Jyavenard-9 wrote: There is no unique nor "official" software path to have hardware acceleration on linux. Every chip makers have designed their own framework to do so; none of them compatible with one another. You may want to track bug 1210729 or bug 1210727. The only GStreamer plugin allowing hardware acceleration decoding was a VAAPI plugin: it was buggy and extremely unstable nor did it provide any significant speed improvement. You're much better off using ffmpeg Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1424201/comments/10 On 2015-11-17T12:58:01+00:00 Oartin wrote: As far as I know, there is 2 main distinct framework for hardware acceleration on linux - VDPAU and VAAPI. Eg. VLC or Mplayer supports this, but not Firefox. I read some comments, that GStreamer + VAAPI plugin works for someone in Firefox, but personally I could never manage it to work (video plays, but not HW accelerated), move to ffmpeg seems to be a good decision. As far as I know, VL
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
I've created a new bug to enable hardware acceleration via v4l2 codecs https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1799686 . Patches linked in the bug. This would give machines like the Raspberry Pi hardware acceleration (although currently the kernel needs patches too!). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
** Summary changed: - Chromium does not use the GPU to decode videos + Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding ** Also affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #563206 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs