![]() ![]() I’ve tested it before and found it quite effective, though it did not reduce the CPU use as much as using hardware-accelerated media players like VLC. Still, Chromium is open source, and the patched versions are available in the repos of several distros, and by PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives. ![]() The patch to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding (I will call it HAVD for short) was submitted a long time ago, but Google refuses to accept the submission. ![]() They say it’s unreliable and does not work with all setups (nVidia in particular), which is probably true, but even if the patch is installed, the feature is still disabled by default and hidden behind a “flag” that marks it as an experimental and unsupported feature, so why not just enable it and let the user decide as with other experimental, unsupported features? The code to enable the feature is already in the browser, as I understand, as a remnant of the code to enable the feature in the Linux-based ChromeOS, but Google has it blocked on all non-ChromeOS Linux distros for reasons that don’t seem valid to me. At this time, the only browser for Linux that offers hardware-accelerated video decoding is the patched version of Chromium. ![]()
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