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#1151 2025-05-23 02:50:28

richardm
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Update to my last message.  I'm closer to getting video acceleration on Wayland (still with Chrome running ozone=x11 however):

Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it with these env vars:

__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_03_00_0

...and these switches:

--enable-features=Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiVideoDecoder
--render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD129

This finally gets me to...

Video Acceleration Information
==============================
Decoding                      : 
Decode h264 baseline          : 48x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode h264 main              : 48x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode h264 high              : 48x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode vp8                    : 48x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode vp9 profile0           : 128x128 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode vp9 profile2           : 128x128 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode hevc main              : 144x144 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode hevc main 10           : 144x144 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode hevc main still-picture: 144x144 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode av1 profile main       : 128x128 to 8192x8192 pixels

First time seeing ANY decodes here with this GPU.

The catch?  Most videos won't actually play.

00:00:01.881	pipeline_state	"kPlaying"
00:00:01.903	dimensions	"2560x1440"
00:00:01.903	kResolution	"2560x1440"
00:00:01.903	error	{"code":5,"data":{},"group":"DecoderStatus","message":"","stack":[{"file":"media/mojo/clients/mojo_video_decoder.cc","line":475}]}
00:00:01.903	error	"video decode error!"
00:00:02.572	error	{"cause":{"code":5,"data":{},"group":"DecoderStatus","message":"","stack":[{"file":"media/mojo/clients/mojo_video_decoder.cc","line":475}]},"code":24,"data":{},"group":"PipelineStatus","message":"","stack":[{"file":"media/renderers/video_renderer_impl.cc","line":596}]}
00:00:02.572	pipeline_state	"kStopping"

The breakthrough (if you call it that) was when I pointed vainfo at the nVidia with the correct arguments to make it work.  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME is the key that made h/w decodes appear in Chrome://GPU:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD129

and for the RX 570:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128

I'll add that switcherooctl appears to omit LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME and also DRI_PRIME is insufficient by itself (on my setup at least).

Chrome remains unusable in native Wayland mode.

Last edited by richardm (2025-05-23 02:53:23)

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#1152 2025-05-23 06:57:21

Xephon
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

@richardm, could you please check hardware acceleration status on NVIDIA in the "media" tab in the devtools or in nvtop on your system?

I was trying to help to set-up video acceleration on NVIDIA https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305664
Despite Video Acceleration Information table in chrome://gpu was filled with codec information, videos were not accelerated.

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#1153 2025-05-24 01:03:33

richardm
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Xephon wrote:

@richardm, could you please check hardware acceleration status on NVIDIA in the "media" tab in the devtools or in nvtop on your system?

I was trying to help to set-up video acceleration on NVIDIA https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305664
Despite Video Acceleration Information table in chrome://gpu was filled with codec information, videos were not accelerated.

IIRC I've not achieved successful video acceleration by the nVidia with any configuration or with any browser.  Ever.  Not even with Thorium.  The closest is the above (posted yesterday) where chrome://gpu reports accelerations but videos won't play.  I can tweak settings to where no acceleration is reported and videos play just fine albeit in CPU fallback.  I went through that thread along with a number of others and also the Arch wiki and tried every switch and knob.

mpv works with no arm twisting; just hwdec=auto:

"Using hardware decoding (nvdec-copy)."

Chrome with the right arguments and envs *does* use the nVidia (sans h/w video decode) and it seems to work fine -- I can launch Chrome and observe the card waking up as evidenced by GPU VRAM in-use rising from ~3MB to ~200-300MB and also GPU + VRAM freq. rising from their idle floors of 210MHz and 405MHz respectively.  The nVidia will remain asleep if I change Chrome's envs+arguments back to the radeon.

Chrome in ozone=wayland remains 100% unusable regardless of GPU selection, switches, arguments, or knobs.  I either use x11/xwayland or else use Firefox (which ironically doesn't work in x11 mode).

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#1154 2025-05-24 05:51:38

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

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#1155 2025-05-29 18:53:22

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

FYI: nVidia users on the 575 series drivers will need to build libva-nvidia-driver from current git master branch for hardware video decoding support.

All good with today's 575.57.08 New Feature Branch driver release + git master.

Hopefully "elFarto" will tag a new release shortly.

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#1156 2025-06-05 17:04:37

barnd3
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

I use ungoogled-chromium and have set the following flags,

--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoEncoder,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs --VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks --render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128
--enable-zero-copy --ignore-gpu-blocklist --ozone-platform-hint=x11 --ozone-platform=x11

When streaming I get this error message

[41426:41641:0605/185315.409964:ERROR:media/gpu/vaapi/vaapi_video_decoder.cc:1218] failed Initialize()ing the frame pool

the encoding field is empty...
What else can I do?

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#1157 2025-06-09 15:46:45

tekstryder
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

tekstryder wrote:

All good with today's 575.57.08 New Feature Branch driver release + git master.

Hopefully "elFarto" will tag a new release shortly.

And it is now so:

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi … ag/v0.0.14

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#1158 2025-07-09 12:37:31

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

My video acceleration works fine, but I'm getting micro stutters right before video starts playing in sites like reddit and twitter. Normal websites are smooth. It's noticeable when I'm scrolling with mouse. I'm using dwm (x11), i3 1315u cpu, gpu supports all codecs.

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#1159 2025-07-15 09:41:30

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

tekstryder wrote:
tekstryder wrote:

All good with today's 575.57.08 New Feature Branch driver release + git master.

Hopefully "elFarto" will tag a new release shortly.

And it is now so:

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi … ag/v0.0.14

But thats for firefox. Is there something u can make chromium work with this driver? In the doc it says not working with chrome currently.

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#1160 2025-07-16 20:18:57

tekstryder
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

TheBigK wrote:

Is there something u can make chromium work with this driver?

Works fine on chromium / brave.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2236902

Last edited by tekstryder (2025-07-16 20:19:19)

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#1161 2025-07-17 12:48:24

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Hi,

I have an INTEL Series 2 - 265,
I have tried all the settings on this forum but I get only errors:
about some deprecation endpoints.

Does anyone have successfully set vaapi with Intel Ultra Series 2 iGPU?

Where could be the problem? Does intel-media-driver added support for iGPU from Intel Series 2?

ps:
- vainfo run fine.
- intel-media-va-driver-non-free/plucky,now 25.1.2+ds1-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
  VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family

logs:
MESA: warning: Driver does not support the 0x7d67 PCI ID.
[0717/181128.072977:ERROR:chromium/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/181128.074442:ERROR:chromium/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/181128.074688:ERROR:chromium/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/181128.074769:ERROR:chromium/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/181128.098194:ERROR:chromium/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[15904:15904:0717/181128.138680:ERROR:chromium/content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:959] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: warning: Driver does not support the 0x7d67 PCI ID.
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri3 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: iris

Last edited by georgenistor (2025-07-17 15:12:46)

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#1162 2025-07-17 17:41:26

ashishv01
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

I am experiencing 0% 'Video' engine utilization (as per intel_gpu_top) for hardware video decoding in all Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome, Brave, Chromium native and Flatpak) on my Intel HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake / Gen9 iGPU) running Arch Linux with a Wayland session.

Despite vainfo confirming full VA-API capabilities for VP9 (the codec being played on YouTube) and the intel-media-driver (iHD) being loaded, and even with all relevant Chromium --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --ozone-platform=wayland flags and LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD environment variable applied, the dedicated video decode engine remains at 0%.

Crucially, Firefox successfully utilizes the 'Video' engine in intel_gpu_top for the same VP9 videos, demonstrating that the underlying system VA-API setup and Intel drivers are fully functional.

This points to a specific incompatibility or bug within the Chromium rendering engine's VA-API implementation with this particular Intel iGPU and Wayland setup on Arch Linux, rather than a system-wide driver issue.

PC Specs ():
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
                `+oooo:                  Host: Latitude 7480
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 6.12.35-1-lts
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: fish 4.0.2
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 1920x1080
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: GNOME 48.3
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: Mutter
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         WM Theme: Adwaita
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Theme: Rose-Pine [GTK2/3]
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Icons: Tela-circle-purple [GTK2/3]
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal: alacritty
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     CPU: Intel i5-7300U (4) @ 3.500GHz
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
`++:.                           `-/+/   Memory: 3213MiB / 7821MiB

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#1163 2025-07-17 21:07:39

georgenistor
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

It is solved. The problem was the vivaldi from snap.
I figure it out it should run because vlc had no problems.
I installed the vivaldi from homepage by getting the deb file and now it runs with vulkan options.
vivaldi --enable-features=Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiVideoDecoder

Sorry for the trouble.
But I can confirm it runs on intel ultra series 2 - 265.

georgenistor@george-intel-265:~$ apt list --installed | grep intel
firmware-intel-graphics/now 20250708-1 all [installed,local]
intel-media-va-driver/now 25.2.3+dfsg1-1 amd64 [installed,local]
intel-microcode/now 3.20250512.1 amd64 [installed,local]
libdrm-intel1/plucky,now 2.4.124+git2501180500.a7eb2c~oibaf~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-intel/plucky,now 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

georgenistor@george-intel-265:~$ apt list --installed | grep mesa
libegl-mesa0/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
libgl1-mesa-dri/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
libglu1-mesa/plucky,now 9.0.2-1.1build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libglx-mesa0/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
mesa-libgallium/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
mesa-utils-bin/plucky,now 9.0.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
mesa-utils/plucky,now 9.0.0-2 amd64 [installed]
mesa-va-drivers/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
mesa-vdpau-drivers/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]
mesa-vulkan-drivers/plucky,now 25.1.6~kisak1~p amd64 [installed,automatic]

Last edited by georgenistor (2025-07-17 21:27:50)

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#1164 2025-07-17 23:43:52

Bzzz_56
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

georgenistor wrote:

I installed the vivaldi from homepage by getting the deb file and now it runs with vulkan options.
vivaldi --enable-features=Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiVideoDecoder

I believe VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL is an old flag for vaapi upon opengl, it may not do anything here.

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#1165 2025-10-28 01:39:28

outasi
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Hello, has anyone managed to get it working on Nvidia GPUs truly in Wayland? I can't seem to get it accelerating no matter what I do in Wayland and simply switching to x11 does not do anything to fix it. I use Vivaldi 7.6.3797.63 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) from the official repo, but I have tried with plain chromium too.

I have installed and configured literally everything under https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardwa … ing_VA-API as well as configuring VDPAU because why not, I have also tried the flags under https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … celeration

I have a 1650Ti, and I am using the proprietary drivers. This means I have tried:
setting LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
setting LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nouveau
setting VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
setting VDPAU_DRIVER=nouveau
setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
setting LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLE=1

all the flags on the wiki, including: --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoEncoder,VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE--use-gl=egl --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder (not every feasible combination of variables and flags but a lot, even all at once but not only)

I even tried with Firefox and it at least gave me a hint in form of:
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed

some additional info:

Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain12             :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain444            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain444_10         :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain444_12         :	VAEntrypointVLD

pacman -Q nvidia nvidia-utils libva-nvidia-driver
nvidia-dkms 580.95.05-1
nvidia-utils 580.95.05-1
libva-nvidia-driver-git 0.0.14.r10.g3d46e26-1 (i tried both the AUR git version and official repos version)

ffmpeg -hwaccels
Hardware acceleration methods:
vdpau
cuda
vaapi
qsv
drm
opencl
vulkan
amf

Last edited by outasi (2025-10-28 01:41:41)

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#1166 2025-10-28 15:12:31

tekstryder
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

outasi wrote:

has anyone managed to get it working on Nvidia GPUs truly in Wayland?

Yup. For a long while now, hence the months of silence on this thread.

See here and here.

outasi wrote:

I have tried:
setting LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
setting LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nouveau
setting VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
setting VDPAU_DRIVER=nouveau
setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
setting LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLE=1

Ensure none of those are still being set in your environment.

outasi wrote:

all the flags on the wiki

The only flags necessary on recent Chromium versions are:

--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs
outasi wrote:

I even tried with Firefox

Is libva-nvidia-driver installed?

Hardware accelerated video decoding no workie without it.

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#1167 2025-10-28 15:33:31

outasi
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

tekstryder wrote:

The only flags necessary on recent Chromium versions are:

--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs

Well I can't believe it, but somehow THIS was the combination that got it working through Vaapi! Horray! Thank you! I don't understand how my flag soup didn't work earlier, perhaps some of them did conflict.

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#1168 2025-10-28 20:09:47

outasi
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Wait, nevermind (?). I set through /etc/profile.d/ to export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia because it seems to be doing video decoding on the integrated GPU, and that leads to a black video output with heavy glitching all over the browser's window unless I switch to a different tab, however in nvtop it DOES seem to start doing decoding through the Nvidia GPU. I assume an issue similar (but even more pronounced) as the user RobinSch seemed to experience a few months back. Interestingly, they have the Nvidia 1650 while I have the 1650 Ti, mine specifically is a mobile GPU. And I don't think the built in integrated GPU in the AMD CPU is doing real hardware decoding.

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#1169 2025-10-28 20:34:44

tekstryder
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

outasi wrote:

export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia because it seems to be doing video decoding on the integrated GPU

Discrete GPU here, so fewer avenues to go off the rails.

This is the first you've mentioned another GPU.

outasi wrote:

black video output with heavy glitching all over the browser's window unless I switch to a different tab

Does this occur for any webpage? Things suddenly render correctly just by opening a new tab?

outasi wrote:

in nvtop it DOES seem to start doing decoding through the Nvidia GPU.

If nvtop shows "DEC" it's decoding on the nVidia GPU.

outasi wrote:

I assume an issue similar (but even more pronounced) as the user RobinSch seemed to experience a few months back.

That was/is specific to the chrome://gpu page ONLY.

I followed up on the issue with nVidia here:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/e … tekstryder

...but recently decided it's no longer worth my time to continue investigating.

Do you need/want to use the iGPU for any purpose?

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#1170 2025-10-28 20:49:20

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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia because it seems to be doing video decoding on the integrated GPU

What's the problem w/ using the IGP (to decode videos an anything else that's not a video game etc?
Where're the outputs wired ("monitors attached")?

The point of a hybrid GPU is to save battery by not using the dedicated GPU unless you actually need it and you're not gonna need it to play some youtube videos

And I don't think the built in integrated GPU in the AMD CPU is doing real hardware decoding.

It most likely will have a HW video decoder - whether that's being used is a different matter, check amdgpu_top

All of that aside, hybrid GPUs on wayland is a topic of its own, starting w/ "what wayland exactly?" and then there's https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … er_Wayland

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#1171 2025-10-28 21:15:05

outasi
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

seth wrote:

What's the problem w/ using the IGP (to decode videos an anything else that's not a video game etc?

Thermals, mostly. This laptop already gets toasty, and the fact that so much compute is being done on the CPU really does not help with the fan speeds.

I have the IGPU connected to eDP-1 and the DGPU connected to HDMI-A-1, and I am using the browser on the external display if it makes any difference.
It does appear to peak in "Media" under the "Activity" section in amdgpu_top, I am assuming that does mean some hardware decoding, my mistake. I am not really interested in saving battery since I am literally never using this laptop unplugged.

Not sure what you mean by "what wayland", do you mean what compositor? I am using Kwin 6.5. Could the mere fact that this is a hybrid system really lead to those issues with repainting the window? I am still not that experienced with Linux and its quirks. Not sure if I should bother with disabling the IGPU or Optimus.

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#1172 2025-10-28 21:23:07

seth
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

I'm not sure running the GPU will help w/ the thermal situation (there's usually a shared heat-pipe and more energy means more heat) but you'd ideally completely deactivate the IGP in the UEFI settings then (keeping both the IGP and GPU enabled will certainly not help)

do you mean what compositor?

Yes.
The "wayland" protocol doesn't cover these things at all, so the specific compositor is really the only thing that matters.

Could the mere fact that this is a hybrid system really lead to those issues with repainting the window?

"Could" most certainly. "Does" isn't unlikely. Esp. not if xwayland is also involved.

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#1173 2025-10-28 21:29:32

outasi
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

seth wrote:

I'm not sure running the GPU will help w/ the thermal situation (there's usually a shared heat-pipe and more energy means more heat) but you'd ideally completely deactivate the IGP in the UEFI settings then (keeping both the IGP and GPU enabled will certainly not help)

Hmm, alright, I might consider doing some tests soon-ish to see if I gain anything from disabling the IGPU, but until then, at least I do have SOME hardware decoding. If I do run these tests (and remember) I will update this reply in case other people also wonder if there is any worth in going down this route. Thank you all.

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#1174 2025-11-17 01:06:37

kode54
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Re: chromium: hardware video acceleration with VA-API

Regarding AV1 functionality:

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi … issues/405

It's Complicated.

Edit: It's fixed.

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/pull/407

Last edited by kode54 (2025-11-18 09:26:11)

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