[VDPAU] Flash: rendering accelerated, decoding not

[Grant]

>>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> Got it working with EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1.
>>>
>>>
>>>> BTW, can HTML5 playback be accelerated?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?


It looks like hardware acceleration is actually supported in
chrome/chromium (I guess just not via VDPAU):

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/enable-hardware-acceleration-in-chrome.html

- Grant