(update, Vulkan disappeared!) Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration

[npro]

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[edwardp]

@Panino r/vivaldibrowser is not an official support channel.

Has this been reported as a bug? If not, please submit a bug report, provide all relevant information (including the Linux distro and version, mesa and vaapi package version numbers) and provide the bug report number (VB-xxxxx) in this thread. You can also include this message topic (post its URL) in the bug report.

Thank you.

[npro]

@npro Works with Chromium 115.0.5790.170 (AMD)

[Panino]

Just as short update.
All those categories in "vivaldi:gpu" were displaying as "software only". Nothing I did made any difference, nothing, absolutely nothing. I gave up and was using it that way, with Firefox Open to watch videos.

Today I wanted to use BleachBit and used it to clean system and Vivaldi's cache and guess what... those categories changed to "hardware accelerated".

Video acceleration still not working, that problem with GL_Vendor being Google Inc persists, but at least not the general performance should be better, I hope.

[Panino]

This week I switched from KDE Neon to Tuxedo OS, maybe change played it's part, but still... FINALLY DID IT!

Noticed that "Vulkan" was "Disabled" on the GPU page and thought, "shouldn't this be enabled?"
Changed it's flag from "Default" to "Enabled" and it worked!

Finally! After all these years!
Sorry Firefox, I don't you need anymore.

[Panino]

@Panino said in Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration:

This week I switched from KDE Neon to Tuxedo OS, maybe change played it's part, but still... FINALLY DID IT!

Noticed that "Vulkan" was "Disabled" on the GPU page and thought, "shouldn't this be enabled?"
Changed it's flag from "Default" to "Enabled" and it worked!

Finally! After all these years!
Sorry Firefox, I don't you need anymore.

Vivaldi updated to version 7.1, and I noticed that video acceleration stopped working while watching a video on YT.

Went to check GPU and Vulkan is disabled.
Went to check Flags and:

It's gone!
What happened with Vulkan?

[DoctorG]

@Panino said in (update, Vulkan disappeared!) Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration:

What happened with Vulkan?

Was removed from Chromium 132 core on Linux as i can see.

Perhaps commandline helps:

--use-vulkan

Enable Vulkan support and select Vulkan implementation, must also have ENABLE_VULKAN defined. This only initializes Vulkan, the flag --enable-features=Vulkan must also be used to select Vulkan for compositing and rasterization.

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#use-vulkan

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Could be that in Flags the Temporarily unexpire M130 flags brings back the flag.

Ouch, enabling M130 flags and enabling Vulkan does not start my Vivaldi anymore on Debian 12 KDE with NVidia. I removed Vulkan setting in flags now.

[DoctorG]

@Panino Closed bug report VB-113707 as it is a Chromium upstream issue and i do not know if setting will come back with Chromium in future.

[npro]

I have hardware video acceleration with my UHD600 without vulkan:

[Panino]

@DoctorG said in (update, Vulkan disappeared!) Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration:

@Panino Closed bug report VB-113707 as it is a Chromium upstream issue and i do not know if setting will come back with Chromium in future.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!

Which one is the last (.deb) snapshot with Vulkan?

[npro]

@Panino Just use the equivalent parameter --enable-features=Vulkan or unexpire the flag as DoctorG did chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m130 if you need vulkan so much.

Seems like the removal is only temporal or by mistake:

[Panino]

@npro said in (update, Vulkan disappeared!) Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration:

@Panino Just use the equivalent parameter --enable-features=Vulkan or unexpire the flag as DoctorG did chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m130 if you need vulkan so much.

Seems like the removal is only temporal or by mistake:

I hope it is temporary, because this is an insane decision. Vivaldi and any web browser based on code by that evil corporation is unusable without it.

But I'll not wait for confirmation, I'll save this version and never update again.

[ingolftopf]

@Panino said in (update, Vulkan disappeared!) Believe it or not, I solved! For real this time! | HW Video Acceleration:

This week I switched from KDE Neon to Tuxedo OS, maybe change played it's part, but still... FINALLY DID IT!

Ohh, “TuxedoOS” veery nice.

I have no idea about it, but I find it veery interesting!

Would you be interested in describing your experiences with it?

Ohh, “TuxedoOS” very nice.

I have no idea about it, but I find it very interesting!

Would you be interested in describing your experiences with it?

I've been thinking about getting a nice “Tuxedo” laptop for a long time

[edwardp]

openSUSE upgraded Chromium to 133.0.6943.98 and the #vulkan flag is present.

Looks like the Chromium project has been removing that flag, then adding it back.

[Panino]

Updated to the new version 7.2, was expected video acceleration stopped working, even if it looks like it should. Vulkan is there, the flags are there.

Downgraded and... not it don't want to work anymore on 7.1...

I'll insist a few more times.

[Ruarí]

@Panino We have done nothing specially relataed to tweaking Vulkan support in recent times nor is this something we want to tweak right now, with the size of the team we currently have.

Are you seeing any difference to other 134 Chromium based browsers? I suspect not but would love to have confirmation.

[npro]

@Panino ...

you are making it so difficult to yourself having 127 different irrelevant flags enabled and whatnot, HVA works fine with OpenGL on Wayland (--ozone-platform-hint=wayland) with the intel media drivers and the --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL parameter. Reset all flags or try it in a new profile from this base point, experimenting with X11 as well if you need it, maybe it works with it too.

(test your H.264 video directly https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264 )