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onecmc

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Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 13

[solved] Hardware Accelleration works in Chrome but not Chromium

I have an odd problem, I am using the chromium package from the main repository and the google-chrome package from aur.

I noticed slow video playback on chromium but not google-chrome and got this information from chrome://gpu

chromium

*   Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
*   Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
*   Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
*   Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
*   OpenGL: Disabled
*   Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Raw Draw: Disabled
*   Skia Graphite: Disabled
*   Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Vulkan: Disabled
*   WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
*   WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
*   WebGPU: Disabled
*   WebNN: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable

google-chrome

*   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
*   Raw Draw: Disabled
*   Skia Graphite: Disabled
*   Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
*   Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Vulkan: Disabled
*   WebGL: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGPU: Disabled
*   WebNN: Disabled

I am using the internal Intel video card on my P1 notebook with the i915 driver with wayland on the sway desktop. I also tried thorium and that works but would prefer vanilla chromium- just with video accel!

Any help appreciated.

Last edited by onecmc (Yesterday 11:12:25)

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] Hardware Accelleration works in Chrome but not Chromium

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … celeration

onecmc

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Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] Hardware Accelleration works in Chrome but not Chromium

Okay I've got it... hardware acceleration works out of the box in chromium just like in chrome without special flags with a fresh chromium user directory. I have no idea which part of the the old directory caused the problem, but I solved it like this- just a fresh chromium directory keeping bookmarks and history. (You might need to transfer other stuff depending on the setup)

```
mv  .config/chromium .config/chromium.1
```
Launch chromium, export bookmarks, exit chromium
```
cp .config/chromium.1/Default/History .config/chromium/Default/History
```
Launch chromium, import bookmarks