Chromium is better sometimes

Posted Jan 26, 2021 23:39 UTC (Tue) by mss (subscriber, #138799)
In reply to: Chromium is better sometimes by juliank
Parent article: The endless browser wars

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.