Viewing topic H264 support - Google still giving finger to NVIDIA?

Title: H264 support - Google still giving finger to NVIDIA?

devnull 23 May 2018

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Noticed something odd, at least Chromium is not using hardware decode for video and hasn't for _years_. From chrome://gpu :

Accelerated video decode is unavailable on Linux: [137247](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001)
Disabled Features: accelerated_video_decode

The referenced bugid goes back to _2012_

Issue description
Currently there are no plans to do this, but if/when that changes, this bug will be updated to reflect that change of plans.

Appears Ubuntu ships their own patch to enable it.
[patch](https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-ubuntu-build/blob/master/debian/patches/enable_vaapi_on_linux_2.diff)

WTF?

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Xpander 23 May 2018

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no issues here, vivaldi, opera and chrome only reporting this as disabled:

Native GpuMemoryBuffers have been disabled, either via about:flags or command line.

Disabled Features: native_gpu_memory_buffers

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devnull 23 May 2018

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native_gpu_memory_buffers is disabled too but I had some other graphic glitches with it. Strange thing is Chome's using the GPU for some rendering.

Edit: fwiw Vivaldi complains ...

No suitable library for HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video and MP3 audio was
found, therefore only open codecs will play.

For assistance on how to enable proprietary media, visit:

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-mp4-h-264aac-video-and-mp3-audio-support-under-linux/

Insanity. Which of course only has instructions for Ubuntu even thought they provide a fucking RPM. .. and why the hell does it install /etc/cron.daily/vivaldi LUL. Using google's backdoor tricks. Further lunacy to this is the manual build instructions pull ffmpeg from Chromium anyway. HAHAHAHA..

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