Tux Machines

Hardware Accelerated Chromium Snap Available to Test

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on May 10, 2023

=> New Release of Br OS | GCC 12.3 Released

=> ↺ chromium snap gpu

Canonical has partnered with Intel to make a Chromium snap that boasts hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding. This bespoke build offers better performance and battery life than a “vanilla” build on Kaby Lake (7th Gen) and newer platforms when using VP8, VP9, and H.264 codecs.

And since those codecs are pretty ubiquitous on the web, and none of us would sniff at extended battery life, sounds like a no-brainer, doesn’t it?

Read on

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