[Bug 1796013] Re: Video processing on GPU with Wayland drops too many frames

[Daniel van Vugt]

Firefox and Chrome/Chromium use software video decoding by default. They
might also have "hardware acceleration" options for you to try, but to
the best of my knowledge they don't do properly efficient hardware
decoding. So this is a bug (two bugs) in the web browsers.

For a proper future solution see:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294

For a simple workaround that works today, see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntelQuickSyncVideo#YouTube

Another issue you will find is that Gnome Shell (especially Wayland sessions) stutters and drops frames more than it should. And this problem will be visible in your videos too. I have a list of causes for that:
https://trello.com/c/Q6JYXPPs

Many people report better performance using Xorg sessions, for now.


** Summary changed:

- Video processing on GPU with Wayland drops too many frames
+ Video playback in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox with Wayland drops too many frames

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