[arch-general] Hardware video acceleration
Ralf Mardorf
silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Jul 21 19:46:42 UTC 2019
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 21:22 +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:01 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain
> > absolutely nothing on my machine or I've done something wrong ;).
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Neither Chrome nor Firefox support accelerated video decoding on Linux.
>
> We briefly patched it into chromium a while back, but retracted those
> patches because they were buggy.
Thank you Jan,
despite strange messages, it works when using mpv :).
Regards,
Ralf
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