Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux

[MrCooper]

Surprise surprise, I just tried them on my work laptop with an Intel CPU/graphics, and its playing fine with hw accel enabled.

Goddamnit AMD.

You're barking up the wrong tree. It's a chromium bug, same as or similar to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstre...api/issues/136 . Other drivers are just hiding it by not exposing 10 bits per component configs (which breaks use-cases where 10 bits per component are required or at least desirable).

[starshipeleven]

You're barking up the wrong tree. It's a chromium bug, same as or similar to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstre...api/issues/136 . Other drivers are just hiding it by not exposing 10 bits per component configs (which breaks use-cases where 10 bits per component are required or at least desirable).

No it isn't a Chromium bug, after I got reports that all is fine on everything I did some more testing.

There is something wrong in my current installation, as running a newly-installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on the same hardware does not have that problem.
Since I do tinker with stuff I'm probably at least partly responsible for this I guess.
Just deleting and reinstalling Chromium does not fix the issue so I'm probably going to migrate my stuff to a new install.

[Bestia]

Thanks, are you using an Intel processor with an iGPU or is the RX 5600 xt the only GPU in the system? Afaik the hardware acceleration is still available in Intel iGPUs even if you install an additional card.

No I have Ryzen 5 3600.

[timrichardson]

Eh, I've been using it for a while on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (where the chromium is patched to be able to use HW accel) and it's like 25% of the videos and many livestreams are psychedelic colors and light shows.

Wish you better luck than me.

On KDE Neon (ubuntu LTS) I'm using this build with good success. Thinkpad t480: https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+.../chromium-beta
some of the official distribution builds are very careful/strict about the formats they decode due to licencing issues. That PPA is less encumbered by these considerations. The dev even explains how to get Widewine DRM working.