Debian_SuperUser
Active Member
So I am back on Arch Linux. A while ago when I was on Arch, I was using Thorium, and had found a way to get GPU video decoding working. And all this time when I was on Ubuntu, I think I just used this command -
or this one, I don't remember -
I monitored though intel_gpu_top, and video acceleration was working, now on Arch, it doesn't work.
First I tried installing libva-vdpau-driver 0.7.4-7, and running Chromium with the above 2 commands. Then, I tried installing libva-vdpau-driver-vp9 (from AUR), and had to uninstall the previous driver due to conflicts, but that to still didn't work and also with the above commands. Then I realized there is also a libva-vdpau-driver-wayland, and currently I am actually on sway, a wayland compositor. So I quickly hopped on to i3 (Xorg window manager), but it still didn't work. And now when I tried to build the wayland driver from the AUR, I get this error -
curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the webpage mentioned above.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-vdpau-driver/libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4.tar.bz2
Aborting...
Firstly, why the hell is video acceleration on Chromium so bad, complicated, and unsupported on Linux? And has somebody got it working right now on Arch, or y'all just running Firefox?
chromium --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-oop-rasterization --disable-gpu-vsync --enable-zero-copy --use-gl=desktop --enable-accelerated-video-decode --enable-accelerated-video-encode --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-compositing --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-driver-workarounds --disable-font-subpixel-positioning --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder
chromium --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-zero-copy
I monitored though intel_gpu_top, and video acceleration was working, now on Arch, it doesn't work.
First I tried installing libva-vdpau-driver 0.7.4-7, and running Chromium with the above 2 commands. Then, I tried installing libva-vdpau-driver-vp9 (from AUR), and had to uninstall the previous driver due to conflicts, but that to still didn't work and also with the above commands. Then I realized there is also a libva-vdpau-driver-wayland, and currently I am actually on sway, a wayland compositor. So I quickly hopped on to i3 (Xorg window manager), but it still didn't work. And now when I tried to build the wayland driver from the AUR, I get this error -
curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the webpage mentioned above.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-vdpau-driver/libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4.tar.bz2
Aborting...
Firstly, why the hell is video acceleration on Chromium so bad, complicated, and unsupported on Linux? And has somebody got it working right now on Arch, or y'all just running Firefox?
