Ubuntu's Chromium Snap Finally Seeing Progress On Supporting VA-API GPU Acceleration

[Alexmitter]

Still waiting for an argument on why exactly should canonical do that. Bonus points if it's one that's doesn't just recite the same old talking points.

Just that apps take somewhere between 10 and 30 seconds to start is already reason enough. I had someone ready to go back to windows as that is simply unacceptable.

Imagine telling someone GNU/Linux is faster and more efficient then Windows, and then their browser takes 30 god damn seconds to start. Canonical is such a disgrace to this community. There is absolutely no need for new talking points when years old unacceptable issues are still not fixed.

[Danny3]

I wonder when Ubuntu comes to its senses and just drops the Snap crap???
Fuck you Canonical with the Snap shit!
We don't like it, we don't want it!

[Artim]

I might have to try that last flag. To my knowledge Google regularly breaks VA-API support and it takes forever for people to find out which voodoo ritual they have to do this time to get it working. The last thing that failed was --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder, but that flag about ChromeOS rubbish being defaulted to for no reason seems to be very new

Got it working now, even on Wayland (through XWayland though, won't work on native Wayland mode) wirth

/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform-hint=x11 --use-gl=egl --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder,UseSkiaRend erer --ignore-gpu-blocklist %U

[DanL]

Fuck you Canonical with the Snap shit!
We don't like it, we don't want it!

If you don't like it, don't use it. Or you could go off like a bomb on every Phoronix article that mentions snaps. Either way...

[Artim]

If you don't like it, don't use it. Or you could go off like a bomb on every Phoronix article that mentions snaps. Either way...

Nice joke. If you use anything Ubuntu based you pretty much need to block snapd from installing if you never ever want it to be installed by accident.

[adasiko]

So maybe 2022 will be the year of hardware video decoding in browsers by default on Linux. Yay!

It looks to me however that Chromium is several steps away from getting there

Chromium VA-API GPU acceleration is more like legacy from ChromeOS. Ten years ago CromeOS was built with X.Org.