Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed

The Chrome/Chromium web browser now has fully-enabled the Ozone/X11 platform support across both beta and stable channels...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-Ozone-X11-Future

[linuxgeex]

Oh look, Google just reinvented SDL!

[chromer]

I lost Hardware Accelerated video decode !
It was OK before Ozone.
Now it's gone and all videos playing with software decoder !

[juxuanu]

It's been a while since hardware accelerated video decoding stopped working when using Ozone (regardless of the display protocol). They promoted it to stable nonetheless. Unbelivable.

[Beherit]

It's been a while since hardware accelerated video decoding stopped working when using Ozone (regardless of the display protocol). They promoted it to stable nonetheless. Unbelivable.

It needs to be switched on manually, add the --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder option.

[Sonadow]

Ozone X11 has been working for years, and they only drop the legacy x11 code now.

But that's not enough. I want them to drop all x11 code, including Ozone's x11 code and focus only on the Wayland portion.

[kpedersen]

But that's not enough. I want them to drop all x11 code, including Ozone's x11 code and focus only on the Wayland portion.

I'm sure you, Microsoft and Apple have that dream in common. But it ain't gonna happen kiddos! Not this decade

[Steffo]

Ozone X11 has been working for years, and they only drop the legacy x11 code now.

But that's not enough. I want them to drop all x11 code, including Ozone's x11 code and focus only on the Wayland portion.

Wayland isn't working for everyone yet...

[juxuanu]

It needs to be switched on manually, add the --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder option.

That's exactly what doesn't work.

[tomas]

This is great news!
Is Ozone also a prerequisite for native Wayland support in Electron apps?