** Description changed: - The chromium team has done a great job to totally disabl hardware + 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 : - 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 - - 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. + 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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