I am using endeavourOS with wayland and I want to enabled hardware acceleration in chromium. After using some flags and enabling vaapi, chrome://gpu shows that it is enabled but chrome://media-internals show that vpxvideodecoder is used. I have hardware accelerated codecs in my gpu. It is an intel jasperlake 32 eus.
Checked by vainfo and intel-media-driver, hardware encoding and decoding is enabled.
Can someone help. Vaapi is enabled with flags but it is not being used. I cannot use firefox it is very inefficient. It causes high cpu usage on arch based distros.
Because I use a chromium based browser called brave. It does have inbuilt adblock and it is great to use. Firefox has hwaccel but it causes my laptop to have like 150/400 CPU usage and heavy battery drain.
I have never seen it working. Also don’t look for chromium but for your specific browser, those things are highly dependent on the actual vendor and even package.
Are you sure that the Intel GPU top is reading things correctly? Have you done a reboot since setting it?
Someone offered help because they do not know what you have already tried because you failed to tell us of all what you have tried in the OP. Please remember people here volunteer their time and expertise to help others. The more information you give us about what you have already tried will expedite getting your issue solved sooner and it will keep people from suggesting things you already tried.
I’ve no idea for brave (not using it as I don’t trust them regarding their history, but that’s me hey) but it does indeed work (on my system) with ungoogled-chromium
I’ve no idea for brave (not using it as I don’t trust them regarding their history, but that’s me hey) but it does indeed work (on my system) with ungoogled-chromium
Now I have seen it all.
But can’t confirm, nothing triggers va-api here.
On a more serious note, I can confirm it works. For me it works on brave, google chrome, chromium, you name it. Even on wayland. The secret ingredient is making sure that you have
I’m using Firefox with va-api, but I’m trying to keep an eye on what other browser support. In the past I was not able to get hardware accelerated video decoding going in anything other than FF.
When it comes to chromium I haven’t found a particular package, myriads of flag-combinations etc. that provide any hardware acceleration - no matter what about:gpu claims.
The latest news I’m aware of is:
Just checked ungoogled-chromium and chrome-dev: Doesn’t work here.