Re:Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu
by kcb on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:06PM
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Hardware video acceleration in a browser is somehow still a mess on Linux.
I've spent hours trying every unholy combination of browser/version/Wayland/x11/flags/command line arguments and still can't hardware decode a YouTube video on a pretty standard Intel igpu laptop. Something that should really just work out of the box.
Re:Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu
by abrouwers on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:31PM
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Strange - for me, installing intel-media-driver & setting the vaapi config option in about:config (for firefox) is sufficient. I gave up trying to get it to work in Chrom{e,ium}, though.
I've spent hours trying every unholy combination of browser/version/Wayland/x11/flags/command line arguments and still can't hardware decode a YouTube video on a pretty standard Intel igpu laptop. Something that should really just work out of the box.