linux chromium wierd playback issues

[mockedarche]

So my specs are r7 1700, 16gb ram, and a 1070ti. Im on ubuntu budgie everything updated and im using NVIDIA 440 driver. Alright so 1080p 60fps video constantly drops frames but 1080p doesn't 4k doesn't and EVEN 8k doesn't. I really don't know what to make of it. I know from testing that browsers are Linux don't seem to run youtube as well I also know that firefox even on windows plays videos much better. But regardless its kind of weird how it runs. What do you guys do to have youtube run well on Linux? Do you just not have this issue? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as personally I don't like firefox and am a HUGE youtube watcher. 

[kelvinhall05]

Is hardware accel enabled?

[mockedarche]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Is hardware accel enabled?

Turning it off fixed it. 8k video isn't really playable now but I NEVER watch anything at 8k so its whatever. Thanks for the suggestion I wonder why hardware accel makes video playback worse.

[Ashleyyyy]

turn hardware acceleration back on. 

 

 

 

the problem is chromium sometimes doesn't render correctly on the gpu on linux because it thinks the drivers are bad or something, when it's all fine. you need to force it to render on the gpu. 

 

to do that, go to chrome://flags in the address bar, and then turn on the "ignore-gpu-blacklist" flag, like this:

Edited June 18, 2020 by Ashley xD
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[mockedarche]

On 6/18/2020 at 2:28 PM, Ashley said:

turn hardware acceleration back on. 

 

 

 

the problem is chromium sometimes doesn't render correctly on the gpu on linux because it thinks the drivers are bad or something, when it's all fine. you need to force it to render on the gpu. 

 

to do that, go to chrome://flags in the address bar, and then turn on the "ignore-gpu-blacklist" flag, like this:

I bet that this could have work but I switched over to firefox after learning that chromium was installed via snap. The issue seems to not be existent on firefox I can't play 8k 60 which maybe chromium could but it doesn't matter much to me.

[Ashleyyyy]

10 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

I bet that this could have work but I switched over to firefox after learning that chromium was installed via snap. The issue seems to not be existent on firefox I can't play 8k 60 which maybe chromium could but it doesn't matter much to me.

why do you care it's a snap package? 

[mockedarche]

13 minutes ago, Ashley said:

why do you care it's a snap package? 

I prefer flatpak or other. Honestly its not the end of the world but when I use the terminal and do apt-get I don't want it to ignore that and do a snap. I didn't download it as a snap yet Ubuntu seems to change it to snap anyways.

[Ashleyyyy]

 

2 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

I prefer flatpak or other. Honestly its not the end of the world but when I use the terminal and do apt-get I don't want it to ignore that and do a snap. I didn't download it as a snap yet Ubuntu seems to change it to snap anyways.

you can delete snap completely. 

 

BE WARNED, THIS WILL DELETE ALL SNAP APPS AND ALL THEIR DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/

sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap

rm -fr ~/snap

[Ashleyyyy]

also some system apps are snap too, so you'd have to reinstall those after doing that. 

[mockedarche]

Just now, Ashley said:

 

you can delete snap completely. 

 

BE WARNED, THIS WILL DELETE ALL SNAP APPS AND ALL THEIR DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/

sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap

rm -fr ~/snap

I don't know if you've heard but on Ubuntu if i do that and then try to apt-get chromium it will reinstall snap and do it that way

I did this awhile back and knew some of this behavior before that video but he wraps it up pretty good.

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, Ohsnaps said:

I don't know if you've heard but on Ubuntu if i do that and then try to apt-get chromium it will reinstall snap and do it that way

no. if you uninstall snap it won't install snaps when you apt-get. 

[mockedarche]

1 minute ago, Ashley said:

no. if you uninstall snap it won't install snaps when you apt-get. 

at 3:14

[Ashleyyyy]

oh. i didn't know that. regardless snaps work fine for me so... 

[mockedarche]

Just now, Ashley said:

oh. i didn't know that. regardless snaps work fine for me so... 

That's fine not trying to argue with you on how you feel about snap.

[mockedarche]

On 6/18/2020 at 2:28 PM, Ashley said:

turn hardware acceleration back on. 

 

 

 

the problem is chromium sometimes doesn't render correctly on the gpu on linux because it thinks the drivers are bad or something, when it's all fine. you need to force it to render on the gpu. 

 

to do that, go to chrome://flags in the address bar, and then turn on the "ignore-gpu-blacklist" flag, like this:

im going to assume this would have worked and mark it instead incase anyone else has this issue and wonders onto the forum.