Hi. I can see that Than Ngo made some changes to chromium.conf.
Do you still have the same issue on chromium 141 or 142?
I’ve not tried 142 but I still have the same issue with Chromium 144. Unfortunately the abovementioned packages for Chromium 141 (chromium-141.0.7390.54-1) can no longer be downloaded (presumably they’ve been purged from kojipkgs due to their age).
Signal Desktop was broken again for a few weeks but version 7.88.0 is fine again.
This issue is worrying.
I have a couple of Nvidia PCs with Linux, but only now that the latest, with a RTX 2070, is on the 4k TV (for 4k stuff) I noticed that it’s using the CPU to decode…
Maybe the other PC does that too…
Btw Firefox does that too, and maybe VLC…
Obviously games are fine, the do use the GPU, it’s just video playback.
I went looking around on my own (because googling is useless, if I was lucky I got half-answers).
I think I’ve solved this for, at least, web video playback on the RTX 2070 PC (VLC still spikes the CPU even if it obviously doesn’t go to 100%) while the GT 1030 PC is struggling…
So:
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Go here:
GitHub - elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver: A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC · GitHub -
Then click on the graphic and then go for your version of Fedora.
libva-nvidia-driver package versions - Repology
(Since this is Fedora 43, the magic spell to cast is libva-nvidia-driver.) -
Then go down to “Building”: GitHub - elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver: A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC · GitHub
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Insert these magic words in this order:
sudo dnf install meson
sudo dnf install gstreamer-plugins-bad
sudo dnf install libva-nvidia-driver
sudo dnf install meson libva-devel gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld nv-codec-headers libdrm-devel
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
The stuff below the graph doesn’t seem to work:
USER:~$ meson setup build
ERROR: Neither source directory 'build' nor build directory None contain a build file meson.build.
USER:~$ meson install -C build
Install data not found. Run this command in build directory root.
I do not know what I am doing because neither this is not something I studied, nor I am healthy enough to sink time into it.
I installed this, rebooted, and now I can play 4k videos at 2x speed on my RTX 2070.
I am still trying to make it work on the GT 1030’s.
If someone who knows what’s going on wants to explain this, you’re not merely free to, you are welcomed to.
Edit from 2 days after:
It doesn’t work (anymore?) and also it’s not that simple/easy: