ungoogled-chromium: Hardware acceleration not working due to no passthrough
Since version 90, running Ungoogled-Chromium with flag --use-gl=desktop returns following error in terminal:
[189906:189906:1116/212042.404438:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(454)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is desktop, ANGLE is
As a result, videos aren’t GPU decoded, and Video Acceleration Information section under chrome://gpu is blank, where it should list the decoding capabilities of browser. This still persist in current version (95.0.4638.69-1)
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- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 25 (10 by maintainers)
Try adding
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder(source)