Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: ShabbyXI myself would like to tackle this, but I have so much on my plate, I could use help getting the initial code done.

If you're not just trolling: there's already code being used by some distributions:
https://fedoramagazine.org/chromium-on-fedora-finally-gets-vaapi-support/ [External Link]

No I'm not trolling. That's fantastic, I didn't know about that. It's even better knowing that these patches are already running in the wild. I'm on paternity leave at the moment, but will definitely push to upstream the patches once I'm back next month.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ShabbyXIronically, the disadvantage of Linux with Stadia is that chrome doesn't support hardware acceleration in video decoding, so Linux will have a (slightly) higher latency than windows...

What's the latest on this, I'm a bit out of touch since I use Firefox.

The latest is what I just said?

*sigh* let me be a lot more specific then: What is the latest on getting the code accepted into Chromium/Chrome to enable it the same as it is on Windows?

Linux GPU support in chrome is primarily done by Linux enthusiasts volunteering their time (of which there are many in Google). This particular thing has been low priority enough that so far no one has volunteered to do and maintain it (and the bigger problem is indeed maintenance, and addressing the flurry of bug reports on all sorts of hw). It's a sensitive feature too, imagine how mad any Linux user would be if they couldn't watch videos on youtube, so it can only be enabled if it's entirely bugfree. The fact that the hw-accelerated video decoding libraries on Linux don't have test suites also doesn't instill confidence.

I myself would like to tackle this, but I have so much on my plate, I could use help getting the initial code done.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ShabbyXIronically, the disadvantage of Linux with Stadia is that chrome doesn't support hardware acceleration in video decoding, so Linux will have a (slightly) higher latency than windows...

What's the latest on this, I'm a bit out of touch since I use Firefox.

The latest is what I just said? Firefox doesn't support it either FYI. They will both use software decoding which will add another few milliseconds of delay.

If anyone is interested in adding this support to chrome, I can try to maintain it going forward. Add me as reviewer (syoussefi, chromium, org) and I'll try to push for it.

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Ironically, the disadvantage of Linux with Stadia is that chrome doesn't support hardware acceleration in video decoding, so Linux will have a (slightly) higher latency than windows...

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For the moment avoid downloading .desktop or .directory files and extracting archives from untrusted sources.

It's not windows, nobody downloads software off the internet already

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Does it need root password everytime it applies settings? Does the whole UI run as root on startup? If the latter, no thank you! I would like to see the developer think about the security implications too.

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You know what would be funny? If for windows, the developer says "just run it through WSL", like how others tell us to run their windows-only game through proton.

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Can we have the old graphs back as well? Seeing the trends change over time is quite nice, and really not doable with these bar graphs.

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Sounds a lot like Curious Expedition, which was actually an awesome game.

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Quoting: yöliskoYou should remember that Google is mainly an advertisement company, and you are their product.

I would be really scared about how detailed a personal profile they can build by learning all your gaming habits and how much they will learn about you by all the choices you make in the games.

All the possibility in the data mining and profiling with these added details of personality through gaming.

And as all the games would be streamed, you are not able to block the data mining by firewalls or by going offline.

Google provides the option not to do personalized advertising if you opt out. You can also download your data to see what's collected, or choose to delete them. You don't need a firewall for that, as there are builtin options in your Google account itself. You are still their product and you get ads, but can choose not to be a subject of machine learning.

You can choose not to trust that Google says the truth. I honestly didn't prior to joining Google. But I can say with good confidence that they don't try to hide the truth (bugs and mistakes happen, which are sometimes mistaken for malicious intent)

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