[VDPAU] Flash: rendering accelerated, decoding not

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 16:16:55 PDT 2014


>>> I'm using libvdpau-va-gl to accelerate flash via VAAPI and "Stats for
>>> nerds" tells me rendering is accelerated but decoding is not on
>>> youtube.com.  I'm using a Gigabyte Brix 2807 (it's like an Intel NUC).
>>> Can I accelerate Flash decoding too?
>>
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>> Got it working with EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1.
>>
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>>> BTW, can HTML5 playback be accelerated?
>>
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>> Still curious about this.  My video performance on youtube.com is now
>> much greater in firefox than in chromium.
>
> chromium does not support hardware accelerated decoding using VDPAU at the
> moment. For further details please consult:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001


That bug mentions HTML5 but do you know if chromium can accelerate flash?

- Grant


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