GPU accelleration on electron 12 ????

[Woodhousemelena]

In the update release notes it states :

_Updated to Electron v12

This enables Video Acceleration for Linux users. Your GPU will now assist in watching videos, lowering CPU usage (Windows / Mac users already have this)_

Do we need to do anything else to enable this? I see even higher CPU usage on version 0.12 than on 0.11.3 It seems not to be enabled at all. AMD graphics.

[cihlarma]

As long as your distro has VAAPI support set up for your graphics card, that should be all you need for hardware acceleration with FreeTube.

Your graphics card also has to support hardware decoding for the codec used though, which isn't guaranteed with YouTube using VPx on many videos, a codec that wasn't supported in GPU's until a few years ago (and I think YouTube is even experimenting with having some videos in the AV1 format, which has no hardware decoding support in GPUs at all yet!).

[Generator]

On ~Archlinux~ Manjaro i had to add some options to work with Hardware Decoding --use-gl=desktop --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder

I'm using Nvidia with libva-vdpau-driver-chromium (VDPAU backend for VA API), with original settings Hardware Decoding want's working.

Described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Hardware_video_acceleration

[neurodiverseEsoteric]

Is there a way to embed the options into the appimage or a hidden freetube config file, so that bash-history isn't flooded with the same command?

[neurodiverseEsoteric]

And would those flags keep my gpu from going over 60 degrees (celsius)?

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Hi is this issue still valid?

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