Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland

One of the limitations of Google Chrome's Wayland support has been the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) not being supported for GPU-based video acceleration as it's directly targeted the libva-x11 library. But with code merged on Friday to Chromium, libva-drm is now used to allow for working VA-API acceleration on X11 or Wayland...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Wayland-VA-API

[jonkoops]

Is there any news on when the Chrome team is thinking of enabling Ozone by default? It's kind of a bummer Chrome still needs to use XWayland by default in Wayland environments.

[M@GOid]

For some time now (maybe a year?) there is a toggle on the flags settings to enable video hardware acceleration (it is set backwards BTW), but it never worked for me. Lets see if they actually make it works this time, because before it felt like mockery.

[juxuanu]

Chromium catching up with Firefox.

[Gusar]

Note that for this to work on AMD, Mesa needs to be compiled with this patch: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/26165

[botipua22]

How is Chrome/Chromium's Linux support subpar despite Google owning two Linux based OSes? It has to be intentional.

[dragonn]

How is Chrome/Chromium's Linux support subpar despite Google owning two Linux based OSes? It has to be intentional.

And yet none of those are running Xorg or Wayland and run mostly on controlled vendor hardware. They as far from a regular desktop distro as you can make them and still use linux kernel.

[Hazel]

NOO, you are imposing Wayland on us! It's someone else's fault that I bought a NVIDIA card and now I must spam a forum about hoy inconvenient this is for me!

[EvilHowl]

Incredibly good news. That was the only thing I missed about X11. Now Wayland is perfect for me.

[Vermilion]

And yet none of those are running Xorg or Wayland and run mostly on controlled vendor hardware. They as far from a regular desktop distro as you can make them and still use linux kernel.

ChromeOS uses Wayland for Android apps, Linux containers and the experimental Lacros browser.