Hi, Tuukka. Can you ask this question in chromium-discuss@ ML? There maybe people that manage to make Chrome VA-API hw decoder work on Linux. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-discuss Best, -Hiro On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:15 PM Tuukka Toivonen <tuukka.toivonen(a)intel.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to enable Chromium browser VAAPI HW decoding support for > VP9 on Linux & Intel HW. I'm using latest sources from repository. > > There are patches against Chromium floating around which supposedly do > this, but in practice they just allow enabling option > switches::kDisableAcceleratedVideoDecode in Chromium. Using the patch, > compiling with option use_vaapi=true, enabling the option (despite the > name, the option needs to be enabled, not disabled), and launching > Chromium with options --ignore-gpu-blacklist and --use-gl=egl almost > works but there is one issue. > > Only YUV format outputs are supported by media-driver, but Chromium > requires RGB because the frames are given to OpenGL using dmabufs. Due > to this mismatch it doesn't work. > > There are many reports that people have successfully used VAAPI with > Chromium and I am curious how that is possible. Did previous versions > of Intel media-driver (or intel-vaapi-driver) support RGB output? If > so, is there any way to add that support back? > > - Tuukka > > _______________________________________________ > intel-vaapi-media mailing list -- intel-vaapi-media(a)lists.01.org > To unsubscribe send an email to intel-vaapi-media-leave(a)lists.01.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s

It is good to hear you managed to enable Chrome VA-API on Linux. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:38 PM Tuukka Toivonen <tuukka.toivonen(a)intel.com&gt; wrote: > > Thanks for the mail, Hiro. I managed to find a fix or at least a > workaround which was to set BufferAllocationMode (hack patch attached > for reference). In addition, I applied the patch from > > > https://github.com/akarshanbiswas/chromium-vaapi/blob/master/enable-vaapi... > > and compiled Chromium with options > > use_vaapi=true > proprietary_codecs = true > ffmpeg_branding = "Chrome" > > and ran with options > > --ignore-gpu-blacklist --use-gl=desktop > > Regards, > - Tuukka > > On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 10:02 +0900, Hirokazu Honda wrote: > > Hi, Tuukka. Can you ask this question in chromium-discuss@ ML? > > There maybe people that manage to make Chrome VA-API hw decoder work > > on Linux. > > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-discuss > > > > Best, > > -Hiro > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:15 PM Tuukka Toivonen > > <tuukka.toivonen(a)intel.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to enable Chromium browser VAAPI HW decoding support > > > for > > > VP9 on Linux & Intel HW. I'm using latest sources from repository. > > > > > > There are patches against Chromium floating around which supposedly > > > do > > > this, but in practice they just allow enabling option > > > switches::kDisableAcceleratedVideoDecode in Chromium. Using the > > > patch, > > > compiling with option use_vaapi=true, enabling the option (despite > > > the > > > name, the option needs to be enabled, not disabled), and launching > > > Chromium with options --ignore-gpu-blacklist and --use-gl=egl > > > almost > > > works but there is one issue. > > > > > > Only YUV format outputs are supported by media-driver, but Chromium > > > requires RGB because the frames are given to OpenGL using dmabufs. > > > Due > > > to this mismatch it doesn't work. > > > > > > There are many reports that people have successfully used VAAPI > > > with > > > Chromium and I am curious how that is possible. Did previous > > > versions > > > of Intel media-driver (or intel-vaapi-driver) support RGB output? > > > If > > > so, is there any way to add that support back? > > > > > > - Tuukka > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > intel-vaapi-media mailing list -- intel-vaapi-media(a)lists.01.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > > intel-vaapi-media-leave(a)lists.01.org > > > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s