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oiler1729

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Registered: 2020-06-19

Posts: 6

Consequences of not enabling Vulkan on chromium

I have an Intel UHD 620 integrated graphics, with intel-media-driver installed. Here is my vainfo.

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.7.1)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 20.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD

I have the precompiled chromium-vaapi installed from the archlinuxcn repository, and forced GPU acceleration in chromium flags, and video accelerated playback seems to work. However, chrome://gpu still has

Enabling vulkan in the chrome flags breaks video playback, however if I use the older libva-intel-driver then I can seemingly both enable vulkan and have accelerated video playback. My question is should I be worried about chromium not being enabled and should I use libva-intel-driver over intel-media-driver?

Last edited by oiler1729 (2020-06-19 04:17:12)

oiler1729

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Registered: 2020-06-19

Posts: 6

Re: Consequences of not enabling Vulkan on chromium

I think this may be related: https://linuxreviews.org/Chromium_81_Is … Enabled%20.
It mentions the blank video player issue

Last edited by oiler1729 (2020-06-22 00:21:15)