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The use of computer hardware to perform some functions faster than is possible in software running on the general-purpose CPU.

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Hardware acceleration chrome+youtube?

I am having an issue watching hd (720 or 1080) videos on Ubuntu 21.04 fresh install. I get really high cpu usage (50% on all cores) which is pretty high for a 720p vid. I tried watching the same video ...
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Google Chrome-stable no hardware acceleration after 109

I'm having an issue where google-chrome-stable does not have functioning hardware acceleration for video after version 109. This is just a chrome issue. I use chrome for password and bookmark sharing ...
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Google Meet extremely slow likely due to Hardware Acceleration

Every time I enable Hardware Acceleration in order to have visual effects on Google Meet the entire browser (Firefox, Chrome, and Brave) is so slow it's impossible to use. I've tried installing the ...
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How to disable graphics hardware accelerations in 20.04?

For troubleshooting purposes, how do I completely disable graphics hardware accelerations in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)? The related Graphics settings don't seem to be available in the Settings app ...
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How to get chromium with vaapi on ubuntu 20.10?

is there any way to get chromium with vaapi on ubuntu 20.10?? I've tried snap version from candidate/vaapi channel and it does not work now but it worked about a month or so ago. gpu: intel hd 620
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How to view hardware video encoder/decoder utilization on AMD GPUs?

For a long time I've used the tool psensor to view the utilization of the hardware video encoding/decoding block on my Nvidia GPUs, but recently I've been curious about how to perform a similar task ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual box : 3D acceleration activated, does not work

So I install a brand new ubuntu 18.04 in virtual box. I installed both host extensions and guest additions. My host system in a windows 10. I activated the 3D acceleration in my VM settings. when I ...
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how to get vdpau hardware acceleration using ffmpeg on ubuntu?

I am developing a multimedia player using ffmpeg. I am trying hard to get hardware acceleration through ffmpeg using vdpau hardware accelerator. I didn't get any success so far. Below I have mentioned ...
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High cpu usage when scrolling or moving windows Gnome in 18.04

I have an AMD a10-7850k apu in my computer and I also have an RX550 GPU. I have the RX550 GPU set up to be passed to a windows kvm for games and that works fine. But On my APU using the radeon driver ...
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libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

I encounter this error everywhere since I upgrade to ubuntu 22.04 on wayland. But is this related? Here is the error libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name =...
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chrome Video Acceleration is not working on wayland

I am trying to enable video acceleration in chrome My chrome://gpu output says that hardware acceleration is enabled but when I play video on youtube, the hardware acceleration is disabled CPU: Info:...
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High cpu usage on youtube

When playing videos on youtube the cpu increases up to 100% while in everyday use it stays around 15%. In windows when playing videos on youtube the cpu usage is between 20 and 30% I think it's a ...
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Can't get 3d accel working in Ubuntu 17.04, Virtual Box. "Could not mount the media/drive ..." error

I'm following the directions here and in the related question here. I have run the following in my guest Ubuntu os: $ sudo apt install build-essential module-assistant dkms $ sudo m-a prepare But ...
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I don't think Mutter is using hardware acceleration properly for me while Compiz definitely is

To test this out, I installed plain Ubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu MATE one after another. They were all 16.04.2 LTS. I updated all three of them and rebooted as necessary. My goal was to have three ...
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Why Does the Ubuntu Basic Security Page Say Not to use Firefox's Hardware Acceleration?

Is hardware acceleration not secure? Is this statement old? Ubuntu Wiki Basic Security Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicSecurity
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How to enable Hardware acceleration in Ubuntu 16.04LTS with AMD?

I've a system with AMD GX-412HC SOC with Radeon(TM) R3E Graphics ×4 I've read that proprietary drivers (fglrx) aren't supported but I still need to enable hardware acceleration for my video player (...
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Does compiz use hardware acceleration by default?

How do I find out if Compiz is using my graphics card? If it's disabled how do I enable it?
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What's the state of hardware accelerated HTML5 video on Ubuntu?

Flash hardware acceleration never really worked in Linux due to various APIs (VDPAU, VA API, and what not), buggy drivers, and end-of support from Adobe for Flash on Linux. Recently several sites, ...
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Enable hardware acceleration in WINE

I used WINE to install Bejeweled 3 from my game disk. When I start up, the resolution is set to a low 800x600. https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKWNL.png When I try to increase it I get the following ...
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Hw acceleration lost after upgrade to 21.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 I lost the hw acceleration. Now if I try to play a H264 video using vlc I get: $ vlc myvideo-h264.mkv VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [...
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How to enable 3D acceleration on Windows VM in virtual machine manager

I have tried setting Type to Spice server and opengl on in display Spice and in Video Virtio setting the model to Virtio and 3D acceleration on, but that made the Windows VM unusable because of the ...
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vainfo fail in Ubuntu 16.04

I am using i5-8500 with intel UHD-630 graphics. Already I installed next packages. sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver vainfo But vainfo prints this message. sky@sky:~$ vainfo libva info: VA-API ...
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Hardware Virtualisation problem in ubuntu while using virtualbox

So i am using Ubuntu 19.10 and recently installed virtualbox on my pc but there is a problem to use virtualbox. As you can see in the above screenshot, there are some invalid settings. (System ...
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Facebook game & hardware acceleration

I cannot make Facebook's "Gardenscapes" game work on my fresh installation with Firefox. When I start it, it asks me to enable Hardware Acceleration. When the flash popup shows up, "Enable Hardware ...
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Fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install: only llvmpipe, neither Intel nor Nvidia GPU is used despite of config efforts

TLDR version: Once you have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 (and has updated all the existing software on the system immediately after install) and your laptop run llvmpipe for grahics, what is the ...
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How to use a hardware device for HW-accelerated encoding with `ffmpeg` `snap`?

Using the ffmpeg package 18.04 from apt I can encode a video hardware-accelerated in HEVC on Kaby Lake: ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i input.mkv -vf 'format=nv12,hwupload' -c:v ...
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can't enable 3d accelaration in virtual box

Running ubuntu 18 (latest release) on virtual box with windows 10 as host, I've tried unsucessfuly to enable 3d accleration. -I've ticked the "enable 3d accleration" on display settings in virtual ...
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Can I get hardware acceleration working for video (H.264) in firefox?

My CPU is always maxing out and fans going crazy whenever I watch streaming video on Firefox. visiting about:support, I see Hardware H264 Decoding: No, despite Firefox otherwise recognising my ...
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Ensure hardware acceleration feature working

Firefox in my ubuntu distribution typically takes up high resources of CPU. Since hardware acceleration is an often suggested way to ensure performance, i have enabled it under the browser preference, ...
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Is a remote X session GPU accelerated? Separate VMs for session and GPU rendering

I am using Ubuntu desktop. I'm under the impression even locally there is a client/server architecture for X. If I separate it into two VMs, one of which runs the entire desktop environment, and a ...
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Ubuntu 14.04: Radeon driver: no more acceleration after HWS stack update to Wily

after updating the Ubuntu HWS stack to Wily (kernel 4.2 and Xorg), system boots up fine, but screen is lagging; although DRI3 is now enabled, 2D acceleration seems to be gone. FTR, I'm using Oibaf's ...
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Firefox flickering issue

I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 The image below shows the problem with the new animated homepage. I got the same kind of problems with some some videos that don't come from youtube. It seems like there ...
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VirtualBox isn't enabling video acceleration

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 In virtual box I enable 2d and 3d acceleration as well as CPU acceleration. I did it after installation but I don't believe it would matter. I installed windows 7 and did the ...
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Hardware acceleration in video playback

I have ubuntu system with amd apu a6 llano. when I play hd videos on ubuntu using vlc or some other media player it takes so much cpu usage but when I play same video on windows 7 it takes just 5% cpu ...
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avconv to use hardware acceleration

I have a radeon card and would like avconv to use hardware acceleration if possible. I have the proprietary driver-updates from the additional drivers tool.
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Is the Radeon HD 7790 supported in Ubuntu?

I have an MSI Radeon HD 7790 graphics card and I cannot figure out whether it's supported in Ubuntu or not, and to what extent (2D, 3D accel., VDPAU, etc). I tried asking on a few forums but got ...
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Using Hardware-Acceleration with VNC-Server for OBS Encoding

i have the following setup: Intel Core i5-13500 64 GB RAM No GPU I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and connect via VNC which is set up acording to this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/...
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While running `vainfo`, I am getting "Cannot load cuvidGetDecodeStatus". What should I do? [Hardware Video Acceleration Firefox]

I am following this guide on how to enable hardware video acceleration on Firefox. I am using NVIDIA as my graphics card. I feel like I have done all the steps already. At the last part, you are ...
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Video playing: Skipped frame when on battery

When I'm playing a video on battery (either youtube (example), or local VLC ), there is noticeable stutter/skipped frame only when I'm battery powered. I guess there is some kind of power optimisation ...
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Chromium has graphics glitches when hardware acceleration is enabled

I have issues with my chromium when i activate Hardware acceleration. So looks my chrome://gpu when i enable hardware acceleration. And all other windows and tabs of Chromium. I need to disable ...
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nvidia GPU suddently not used anymore at all

Somehow my NVIDIA GPU is not being used at all anymore (just for displaying the screen). Take a look at this picture: There are a lot of options missing. Also, take a look at this: Usually 600MBit ...
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AMDGPU VA-API fails on firefox due to libLLVM-13.so

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x11, the kernel version is 5.13.0-39-generic #44~20.04.1-Ubuntu. I installed firefox and turned VA-API on, but I notice error outputs like libva info: VA-API version 1.8.0 ...
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Can't get nouveau to work with VA_API for video acceleration on firefox? Only can get CPU drivers to work with firefox

Edit2: Sorry, running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, and HWE stack. I get the same error with the GA Stack. _ I've been trying to get nouveau to work so that I can use my Nvidia P500 for hardware acceleration ...
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xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04 broke hardware acceleration

I have been struggling to get my hybrid graphics (i915, amdgpu) to properly work in Ubuntu 18.04. A few months ago, I installed the drivers from ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers. While the Intel drivers ...
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How to enable VA-API in VLC in Ubuntu 16.04

I have Ubuntu 16.04. I can't enable VA-API in VLC (the VA-API output is not present among the one I can choose, only VDPAU, OpenGL GLX, X11, XCB, framebuffer, etc.). I have an Intel i5-4200M CPU, ...
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How to speed up my new 'supposedly' high powered computer

Does anyone have some tips for ways I can optimize/improve the speed of my computer? Just bought a new one, intended for neuroimaging analysis, and i installed ubuntu. I know there's some features of ...
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Screen froze and display garbled after booting Ubuntu and other distros

My pc is freezing and screen flickering when I boot Ubuntu or any other distro. Today I successfully installed Android x86 with the option "no hardware acceleration" so my question is there a option ...
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YouTube video is stucked for few seconds if I have enabled the layers.acceleration.force-enabled in Firefox

If I have enabled layers.acceleration.force-enabled, the YouTube video usually get stucked for few seconds while the audio is playing fine, it never happend when I was in Manjaro, this problem is ...
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Virtual Box installed from the repos does not seem to be able to run with 3d acceleration

I'm running with Kubuntu 18.04 as host, on a machine with a Intel HD chip. Virtual Box is installed from the repos and guest is Kubuntu 17.10. If I do not enable hw acceleration, everything works ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 intel 2d acceleration broken?

I upgraded from 17.10 where I had a custom driver from this PPA installed, because otherwise I couldn't get multihead support working on my intel graphics (i7-8700). I removed the drivers from the ...
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