browser status on "pure wayland"

[Tiago Vignatti]

It's not about Wayland per se that made VDA on Linux possible... in 
short, Chromium devs couldn't afford maintenance of different decoding 
libraries on Linux for different hw vendors so they preferred to only 
maintain whatever comes on ChromeOS and its devices:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137247

maybe I should blog about that and explain in more details.

Tiago

On 06/18/2014 03:12 PM, Yomi Ogunwumi wrote:
> What made adding video decoding acceleration in Chromium on Wayland
> possible?
>
> Would I be correct in guessing that Chromium on X11 doesn't have this
> functionality?
>
> Yomi
>
> On Jun 17, 2014 9:36 AM, "Tiago Vignatti"
> <tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com <mailto:tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     yup, Ozone-Wayland enables a bunch of Chromium based targets
>     including the Chromium Browser.
>
>     I have it daily running on my testing machines and the state is
>     quite good, with most of expected functionalities in place. In fact
>     yesterday I've added video decoding acceleration support (through
>     libva) to it, so on this aspect Chromium on Linux is more advanced
>     on Wayland than on X11 :)
>
>     You're welcome to join #ozone-wayland at freenode to chat with
>     developers and other users.
>
>     Tiago
>
>     On 06/17/2014 05:23 AM, Caner Altinbasak wrote:
>
>         You can check ozone-wayland(wayland port of chromium):
>         https://github.com/01org/__ozone-wayland
>         <https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland>
>
>
>         On 17 June 2014 01:34, Andrea Giammarchi
>         <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at __gmail.com
>         <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Hello There!
>
>              Apologies if this has been discussed for years now but I've
>         managed
>              to build weston on wayland without any X11 dependency and
>         miserably
>              failed to build a WebKitGTK even forcing GTK3 which does build
>              without problems on X-less systems.
>
>              in WebKit2 --gtk=3.0 GTK2 is still required for some reason
>         behind
>              the scene but GTK2 won't build without xorg libraries which
>         is kinda
>              a fail since I had to bring in X related stuff that messed
>         up with
>              all other autogen.sh builds ^_^
>
>              Qt would probably be my best bet but AFAIK they are moving from
>              QtWebkit to QtWebEngine and I'm not sure what's the status
>         there (is
>              this still the case?)
>
>              Long story short: I'd like to have a pure wayland browser
>         but I've
>              no idea how to build one without bringing X libraries in.
>
>              Can anyone please point me to a previous discussion or give
>         me hints
>              for a possible solution/repo/build instructions?
>
>              Thanks a lot and most of all, thanks for Wayland, it's
>         amazing so far!
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