[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

[Michel-Ekimia]

** Description changed:

- The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware
- decoding on Linux.
+ This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux
+ browsers.
  
- Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding.
+ In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery
+ drained when playing video in browser was crazy.
  
- How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this
- PPA ( using libVA ) :
+ In july 2020, things are getting better :
  
- https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev
+ - Chromium :
  
- the corresponding patch is here :
+ A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this
+ patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1816497
  
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/chromium-browser/chromium-
- browser.trusty.beta/view/head:/debian/patches/enable_vaapi_on_linux.diff
  
- that would be great if we could have this patch indefault Ubuntu
- chromium build, this situation is really sad right now, google use linux
- to make chromeOS so chromebook are really good at playing videos but
- GNU/Linux chromium is slow at doing it.
+ - Firefox :
+ 
+ Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is
+ possible and X11 is possible in nightly !
+ 
+ Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727
+ 
+ We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding
+ available in Stable.

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