How To Enable Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding In Chromium On Ubuntu Or Linux Mint | Linux Today

How To Enable Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding In Chromium On Ubuntu Or Linux Mint

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Aug 14, 2018

This article explains how to install a Chromium development build which includes a patch that enables VA-API on Linux, bringing support for GPU accelerated video decoding, which should significantly decrease the CPU usage when watching HD videos online.

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