Chromium is better sometimes

Posted Jan 26, 2021 11:21 UTC (Tue) by juliank (guest, #45896)
In reply to: Chromium is better sometimes by zdzichu
Parent article: The endless browser wars

It's not "worse", it's just that vaapi can be incredibly unstable and crash your system, and Google does not want to deal with the bug reports from that.

Chromium is better sometimes

Posted Jan 26, 2021 23:39 UTC (Tue) by mss (subscriber, #138799) [Link] (2 responses)

It's not the VA-API itself that is unstable but the backing GPU and its drivers.
Often not only when decoding videos but also when doing just hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering.

It looks like GPUs are designed primary with performance in mind, not long-term stability.

Chromium is better sometimes

Posted Jan 29, 2021 16:52 UTC (Fri) by sheepdestroyer (guest, #54968) [Link] (1 responses)

These are the same GPUs running hardware decoding by default on Windows.

Chromium is better sometimes

Posted Jan 29, 2021 17:55 UTC (Fri) by mss (subscriber, #138799) [Link]

This could be due to variety of reasons, from Windows users being used to getting a BSoD from time to time, Windows GPU drivers emulating certain known-problematic operations in software, to GPU vendors deprecating driver support for older chips quicker.