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Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year
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Hopefully. I'm currently using a hack to send Youtube vids to mpv as otherwise watching anything kills my battery.
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Originally posted by timrichardson View Post
Firefox can't do hardware video decoding. Something else that may happen in 2020, but more likely 2021 in my opinion. There is no sight of it.
It's easy to get video decoding in Chromium, most distributions have an easily available build. I've been using it for 12 months on Ubuntu. I have no idea if this Wayland back end will break this, but I think we'll be ok considering that hardware decoding works on ChromeOS (in proper Chrome) and that's not X.
So I bet Chrome/Chromium will beat Firefox to native Wayland + hardware decoding.
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Originally posted by Britoid View Post
So Firefox or GNOME Web?
It's easy to get video decoding in Chromium, most distributions have an easily available build. I've been using it for 12 months on Ubuntu. I have no idea if this Wayland back end will break this, but I think we'll be ok considering that hardware decoding works on ChromeOS (in proper Chrome) and that's not X.
So I bet Chrome/Chromium will beat Firefox to native Wayland + hardware decoding.
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Originally posted by carewolf View PostHeh, QtWebEngine based on Chromium has been available on Wayland for years. But does that using Qt Ozone backend.
Currently, this is no longer a separate fork, only a part of chromium.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium...tail?id=578890
He's still in trouble. Current Sway prevents chromium from starting (remove xdg-shell v6 support).
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commi...b1d718bd84d4d0
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium...tail?id=997631
Pkbuild for Archlinux.
Precompiled binaries for Fedora.
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject....hromium-ozone/
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Heh, QtWebEngine based on Chromium has been available on Wayland for years. But does that using Qt Ozone backend.
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Originally posted by cl333r View PostI use both browsers but I'm switching to the first browser that supports Wayland 100% or hw accelerated video playback.
sorta more excited for chromium because then all the electron based apps I use just magically become wayland apps too!
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I use both browsers but I'm switching to the first browser that supports Wayland 100% or hw accelerated video playback.
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Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year
Phoronix: Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year
For years there has been work on a Wayland back-end to Ozone, the Google component for abstracting user-interface elements and input/window handling among other tasks across platforms. It looks like in 2020 the Ozone Wayland support will be in good standing and promoted out of beta...
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