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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by lights0123 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:05PM (#45032322)
You specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by throwawaylaptop on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:05PM (#45032335)
Interesting. I'll look into that more.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by dismalaf on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:09PM (#45035048)
Straight up false. I have both Chrome and Vivaldi installed on Linux, both have hardware video decoding on OOTB...

You check it by putting chrome://gpu in the address bar.

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