Bug#1050677: Issue 1475278

[Adnane Tidghi]

Just clarifying that issue 1475278 is in bugs.chromium.org not Debian's
tracker

Bug#1050677: Mitigation seems like working but really it does not

[Adnane Tidghi]

Dear Maintainer,

Using The flag --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL seems to list
all codecs as hardware accelerated but they aren't. intel_gpu_top
reports Video/0 engine usage at 0.00%, so I think the bug exists.

Best regards,

Bug#1050677: Fix/Mitigation from Chromium Bug Tracker

[Adnane Tidghi]

Dear Maintainer,

As In Issue 1475278, the problem seems across all linux distributions.

Adding --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL to the list of flags
seems to resolve (or mitigate) this problem.

So this version (and possibly every release in the future) will require
this flag for achieving video acceleration if they don't revert this
behavior.

P.S: It seems like (possibly) it wasn't right to report this bug really
fast without much. I posted this in the hope that it will be helpful.

Best regards,

Bug#1050677: chromium: VAAPI acceleration not working on Chromium 116

[adnane]

Package: chromium
Version: 116.0.5845.110-1~deb11u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: adnane.tidghi...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?
-Upgrading Chromium 115 to Chromium 116.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?
-Tested that video acceleration is working with VLC (it works).
-The output of vainfo returns all functions supported by the driver (i915).
-Installed suggested packages chromium-driver and chromium-shell.
 
  * What was the outcome of this action?
-Concluding that video acceleration still working and proposing that the issue 
might be with Chromium.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
-Working video acceleration in Chromium as it does in VLC and ffmpeg.


I wrote this bug report in the hope that it will be helpful to fix this minor 
bug (if it exists).


Best regards,



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-common116.0.5845.110-1~deb11u1
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ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.38.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-02.36.0-2
ii  libatomic1 10.2.1-6
ii  libatspi2.0-0  2.38.0-4+deb11u1
ii  libbrotli1 1.0.9-2+b2
ii  libc6  2.31-13+deb11u6
ii  libcairo2  1.16.0-5
ii  libcups2   2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2
ii  libdbus-1-31.12.24-0+deb11u1
ii  libdouble-conversion3  3.1.5-6.1
ii  libdrm22.4.104-1
ii  libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-1
ii  libexpat1  2.2.10-2+deb11u5
ii  libflac8   1.3.3-2+deb11u1
ii  libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii  libfreetype6   2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii  libgbm120.3.5-1
ii  libgcc-s1  10.2.1-6
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.66.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u3
ii  libjpeg62-turbo1:2.0.6-4
ii  libjsoncpp24   1.9.4-4
ii  liblcms2-2 2.12~rc1-2
ii  libminizip11.1-8+b1
ii  libnspr4   2:4.29-1
ii  libnss32:3.61-1+deb11u3
ii  libopenjp2-7   2.4.0-3
ii  libopus0   1.3.1-0.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii  libpng16-161.6.37-3
ii  libpulse0  14.2-2
ii  libsnappy1v5   1.1.8-1
ii  libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii  libwebp6   0.6.1-2.1+deb11u1
ii  libwebpdemux2  0.6.1-2.1+deb11u1
ii  libwebpmux30.6.1-2.1+deb11u1
ii  libwoff1   1.0.2-1+b1
ii  libx11-6   2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1
ii  libxcb11.14-3
ii  libxcomposite1 1:0.4.5-1
ii  libxdamage11:1.1.5-2
ii  libxext6   2:1.3.3-1.1
ii  libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-2
ii  libxkbcommon0  1.0.3-2
ii  libxml22.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4
ii  libxnvctrl0470.141.03-1~deb11u1
ii  libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxslt1.1 1.1.34-4+deb11u1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk [xdg-desktop-portal-backen  1.8.0-1
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2

Versions of packages chromium