Dear “Brave” developers, good afternoon! I would ask you to add Hardware-accelerated video decode (vaapi) on Brave browser on Linux! For some reason Google has removed that option form Chromium project on Linux by default, but there is a chromium project that patched vaapi! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin/ It’s very important for many of Linux users to have that option because without vaapi, when you watch a video with vp09 codec (Every video on YouTube nowadays) at 60fps or 4K, the system’s CPU, can load up to 90%! On the other hand, with vaapi enabled CPU can decode a video in company with the GPU and as final result, the CPU’s load is about 25%! In conclusion, you could use the available patch (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/chromium-vaapi.patch?h=chromium-vaapi) to bring back this very important feature! Many thanks, Mark A

Surprising to me that this is still not supported. I spend most of my time on activities that benefit from hardware acceleration, and by my observation, Brave typically sits at at least double the CPU usage of Firefox. This is the only reason I use Firefox as my primary browser.

This is a good resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Hardware_video_acceleration On Fedora 40, I found that the flag --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL works for me.

Didn’t work for me on Fedora 41 and Brave 1.75.166 Here are my system specs: $ inxi -S System: Host: fedora Kernel: 6.12.10-200.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.6 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Cinnamon) $ lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" | grep -o -i -E "amd|intel|nvidia" | sort -u | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' amd $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11 chrome://version 1.75.166 Chromium: 132.0.6834.111 (Official Build) beta (64-bit) Tried with these sets of flags too ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/brave-flags.conf ## X11 + AMD GPU Configuration --use-gl=angle --use-angle=vulkan --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-gpu-memory-buffer-video-frames --enable-zero-copy --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-gpu-rasterization --ozone-platform-hint=auto --disable-breakpad --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoEncoder,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks Output from vainfo $ vainfo Trying display: wayland Trying display: x11 libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0) vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.3.3 for AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, LLVM 19.1.0, DRM 3.59, 6.12.10-200.fc41.x86_64) vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc

you just need to change .desktop file with correct launch parameters like sudo nano /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop Exec=brave --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE --ozone-platform=wayland %U

I think many would agree - and be grateful for - that all those necessary switches (for VAAPI) came as defaults in what is already packaged & shipped by Brave, including Flatpacks. It’s highest time for Brave dev to treat Linux devel a bit less like foster parents do. many thanks, L.

Request for Hardware-accelerated video decode (vaapi) on Linux!

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YTG September 28, 2021, 4:47pm 2

Yes. Brave community please take a look into this. I installed brave yesterday on kubuntu and there was an option to enable hardware-accelerated-video-decode but today brave received an update and that option is gone and I am back to software decode which is using too much of my CPU. Please take this as a priority issue!

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