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ExoDoom

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Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 35

[SOLVED] Hardware accelerated video decoding in Chrome/Chromium

Hi folks,

I'm trying to set up video decoding acceleration on chromium, with no success. Laptop is a LG GRAM with an Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 iRIS XE card. I'm using modesetting driver (no xf86-video-intel installed) and intel-media-driver for VA-API. Hardware accelerated video decoding is working on mpv (I see the video bar going up in intel_gpu_top), so I guess it should work on chromium too. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME is set to iHD, and vainfo seems legit:

$ vainfo                                                                         
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.15 (libva 2.15.0)                                                    
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 22.4.4 ()
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
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile1            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile1            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile3            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile3            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP

This is my ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf:

--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
--disk-cache-dir=/tmp/chrome-cache/exodoom
--enable-accelerated-2d-canvas
--enable-accelerated-video-decode
--enable-features=CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers
--enable-oop-rasterization
--enable-raw-draw
--enable-system-notifications
--enable-zero-copy
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--use-gl=egl

And chrome://gpu looks like this:

Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
OpenGL: Enabled
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
Raw Draw: Disabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
WebGPU: Disabled
Problems Detected
WebGPU has been disabled via blocklist or the command line.
Disabled Features: webgpu
DAWN Info

<Integrated GPU> Vulkan backend - Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
[Default Toggle Names]
lazy_clear_resource_on_first_use: https://crbug.com/dawn/145: Clears resource to zero on first usage. This initializes the resource so that no dirty bits from recycled memory is present in the new resource.
use_temporary_buffer_in_texture_to_texture_copy: https://crbug.com/dawn/42: Split texture-to-texture copy into two copies: copy from source texture into a temporary buffer, and copy from the temporary buffer into the destination texture when copying between compressed textures that don't have block-aligned sizes. This workaround is enabled by default on all Vulkan drivers to solve an issue in the Vulkan SPEC about the texture-to-texture copies with compressed formats. See #1005 (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/1005) for more details.
vulkan_use_d32s8: https://crbug.com/dawn/286: Vulkan mandates support of either D32_FLOAT_S8 or D24_UNORM_S8. When available the backend will use D32S8 (toggle to on) but setting the toggle to off will make it use the D24S8 format when possible.
vulkan_use_s8: https://crbug.com/dawn/666: Vulkan has a pure stencil8 format but it is not universally available. When this toggle is on, the backend will use S8 for the stencil8 format, otherwise it will fallback to D32S8 or D24S8.
disallow_unsafe_apis: http://crbug.com/1138528: Produces validation errors on API entry points or parameter combinations that aren't considered secure yet.
use_vulkan_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory_extension: https://crbug.com/dawn/1302: Initialize workgroup memory with OpConstantNull on Vulkan when the Vulkan extension VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory is supported.
[WebGPU Forced Toggles - enabled]
disallow_spirv: https://crbug.com/1214923: Disallow usage of SPIR-V completely so that only WGSL is used for shader modules. This is useful to prevent a Chromium renderer process from successfully sending SPIR-V code to be compiled in the GPU process.
[Supported Features]
texture-compression-bc
texture-compression-etc2
texture-compression-astc
pipeline-statistics-query
timestamp-query
depth-clamping
depth24unorm-stencil8
depth32float-stencil8
chromium-experimental-dp4a
indirect-first-instance
dawn-internal-usages
dawn-native

<CPU> Vulkan backend - SwiftShader Device (Subzero)
[Default Toggle Names]
lazy_clear_resource_on_first_use: https://crbug.com/dawn/145: Clears resource to zero on first usage. This initializes the resource so that no dirty bits from recycled memory is present in the new resource.
use_temporary_buffer_in_texture_to_texture_copy: https://crbug.com/dawn/42: Split texture-to-texture copy into two copies: copy from source texture into a temporary buffer, and copy from the temporary buffer into the destination texture when copying between compressed textures that don't have block-aligned sizes. This workaround is enabled by default on all Vulkan drivers to solve an issue in the Vulkan SPEC about the texture-to-texture copies with compressed formats. See #1005 (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/1005) for more details.
vulkan_use_d32s8: https://crbug.com/dawn/286: Vulkan mandates support of either D32_FLOAT_S8 or D24_UNORM_S8. When available the backend will use D32S8 (toggle to on) but setting the toggle to off will make it use the D24S8 format when possible.
vulkan_use_s8: https://crbug.com/dawn/666: Vulkan has a pure stencil8 format but it is not universally available. When this toggle is on, the backend will use S8 for the stencil8 format, otherwise it will fallback to D32S8 or D24S8.
disallow_unsafe_apis: http://crbug.com/1138528: Produces validation errors on API entry points or parameter combinations that aren't considered secure yet.
use_vulkan_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory_extension: https://crbug.com/dawn/1302: Initialize workgroup memory with OpConstantNull on Vulkan when the Vulkan extension VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory is supported.
[WebGPU Forced Toggles - enabled]
disallow_spirv: https://crbug.com/1214923: Disallow usage of SPIR-V completely so that only WGSL is used for shader modules. This is useful to prevent a Chromium renderer process from successfully sending SPIR-V code to be compiled in the GPU process.
[Supported Features]
texture-compression-bc
texture-compression-etc2
texture-compression-astc
timestamp-query
depth-clamping
depth32float-stencil8
indirect-first-instance
dawn-internal-usages
dawn-native
Version Information
Data exported
2022-08-26T19:29:06.124Z
Chrome version
Chrome/104.0.5112.101
Operating system
Linux 5.19.3-arch1-1
Software rendering list URL
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0a2e5078088fc9f9a29247aaa40af9e7ada8b79f/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json
Driver bug list URL
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0a2e5078088fc9f9a29247aaa40af9e7ada8b79f/gpu/config/gpu_driver_bug_list.json
ANGLE commit id
4a65a669e11b
2D graphics backend
Skia/104 5a4dbb2e97302f7e574f0ba962ac4d8b3a62a36e
Command Line
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --disk-cache-dir=/tmp/chrome-cache/joseluis --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-video-decode --enable-features=CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-oop-rasterization --enable-raw-draw --enable-system-notifications --enable-zero-copy --ignore-gpu-blocklist --use-gl=egl --enable-crashpad --enable-features=CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --desktop-startup-id=tint2/|usr|bin|google-chrome-stable /673-3-gram_TIME1046524
Driver Information
Initialization time
32
In-process GPU
false
Passthrough Command Decoder
false
Sandboxed
false
GPU0
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Optimus
false
AMD switchable
false
GPU CUDA compute capability major version
0
Pixel shader version
3.20
Vertex shader version
3.20
Max. MSAA samples
16
Machine model name
Machine model version
GL_VENDOR
Intel
GL_RENDERER
Mesa Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
GL_VERSION
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Disabled Extensions
Disabled WebGL Extensions
Window system binding vendor
Mesa Project
Window system binding version
1.5
Window system binding extensions
EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync EGL_CHROMIUM_sync_control EGL_EXT_buffer_age EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import_modifiers EGL_EXT_swap_buffers_with_damage EGL_IMG_context_priority EGL_KHR_cl_event2 EGL_KHR_config_attribs EGL_KHR_create_context EGL_KHR_create_context_no_error EGL_KHR_fence_sync EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses EGL_KHR_gl_colorspace EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_3D_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image EGL_KHR_image EGL_KHR_image_base EGL_KHR_image_pixmap EGL_KHR_no_config_context EGL_KHR_reusable_sync EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage EGL_EXT_pixel_format_float EGL_KHR_wait_sync EGL_MESA_configless_context EGL_MESA_drm_image EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_export EGL_MESA_query_driver EGL_NOK_texture_from_pixmap EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display
XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
GDMSESSION
openbox
Ozone platform
x11
Direct rendering version
unknown
Reset notification strategy
0x8252
GPU process crash count
0
gfx::BufferFormats supported for allocation and texturing
R_8: not supported, R_16: not supported, RG_88: not supported, RG_1616: not supported, BGR_565: not supported, RGBA_4444: not supported, RGBX_8888: not supported, RGBA_8888: not supported, BGRX_8888: not supported, BGRA_1010102: not supported, RGBA_1010102: not supported, BGRA_8888: not supported, RGBA_F16: not supported, YVU_420: not supported, YUV_420_BIPLANAR: not supported, P010: not supported
Compositor Information
Tile Update Mode
Zero-copy
Partial Raster
Enabled
GpuMemoryBuffers Status
R_8
GPU_READ, SCANOUT, SCANOUT_CPU_READ_WRITE, SCANOUT_VDA_WRITE, GPU_READ_CPU_READ_WRITE
R_16
Software only
RG_88
GPU_READ, SCANOUT, SCANOUT_CPU_READ_WRITE, SCANOUT_VDA_WRITE, GPU_READ_CPU_READ_WRITE
RG_1616
Software only
BGR_565
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RGBA_4444
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RGBX_8888
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RGBA_8888
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BGRX_8888
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BGRA_1010102
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RGBA_1010102
Software only
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RGBA_F16
Software only
YVU_420
Software only
YUV_420_BIPLANAR
Software only
P010
Software only
Display(s) Information
Info
Display[66] bounds=[0,0 1920x1080], workarea=[0,0 1920x1044], scale=1, rotation=0, panel_rotation=0 internal.
Color space (all)
{primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}
Buffer format (all)
BGRA_8888
SDR white level in nits
203
HDR relative maximum luminance
1
Bits per color component
8
Bits per pixel
24
Refresh Rate in Hz
59
Video Acceleration Information
Decoding
Decode h264 baseline
16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode h264 main
16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode h264 high
16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode vp8
16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels
Decode vp9 profile0
16x16 to 16384x16384 pixels
Encoding
Encode h264 baseline
321x241 to 4096x4096 pixels, and/or 30.000 fps
Encode h264 main
321x241 to 4096x4096 pixels, and/or 30.000 fps
Encode h264 high
321x241 to 4096x4096 pixels, and/or 30.000 fps
Encode vp9 profile0
321x241 to 8192x8192 pixels, and/or 30.000 fps
Encode vp9 profile2
321x241 to 8192x8192 pixels, and/or 30.000 fps
Vulkan Information
Device Performance Information
Log Messages
[5190:5190:0826/195825.664077:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(486)] : Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl, ANGLE is
[5190:5190:0826/195825.668600:WARNING:sandbox_linux.cc(376)] : InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

I'm making tests with the video in this page: https://www.pexels.com/video/waves-rush … re-1409899
If I download the video and play it on mpv, it gets hardware accelerated. If I play the video either on chromium or google chrome, it doesn't get accelerated.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by ExoDoom (2022-08-27 12:17:02)

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,731

Re: [SOLVED] Hardware accelerated video decoding in Chrome/Chromium

Have you seen https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244031 ?

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ExoDoom

Member

Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Hardware accelerated video decoding in Chrome/Chromium

Hi folks,

Have you seen https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244031 ?

I saw that thread but didn't manage to completely read it :-D

Anyways, I did manage to enable hardware accelerated video decoding, just had to uninstall package vulkan-intel (don't know why I installed it in the first place).

Thank you all guys, you rock!

0BADC0DE

Member

From: Regnum Utriusque Siciliae

Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 270

Re: [SOLVED] Hardware accelerated video decoding in Chrome/Chromium

Are you really really sure you have got HW-accelerated decoding in chromium-based browsers?

Is "sudo intel_gpu_top" showing any non-zero  usage in the column labelled "Video" (4th from left) at the lines labelled like "chromium" or "chrome"  while watching any video in the browser?
Which video?

I am asking (and reviving this thread) because I see no way to.

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