[arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

[Ralf Mardorf]

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