I've built a kiosk system that requires videos playing in Chrome/ium (cannot use Firefox because also need web-bluetooth support)
Our hardware is Intel NUCs and currently we are rolling these out on Windows OS, but would vastly prefer Linux but hitting so many roadblocks.
Trying to get Intel hardware accelerated GPU video decoding working in Chromium running on Wayland has wasted me days of time with no resolution yet (tried ClearLinux and CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 16).
With Wayland on Intel hardware, only VLC player can make use of VAAPI but Chromium doesn't seem possible, which results in 100% (Celeron) CPU usage trying to view a local video in the browser using video.js player.
I'm going to ditch Wayland (Gnome) and try Xfce on my next attempt.
I've built a kiosk system that requires videos playing in Chrome/ium (cannot use Firefox because also need web-bluetooth support)
Our hardware is Intel NUCs and currently we are rolling these out on Windows OS, but would vastly prefer Linux but hitting so many roadblocks.
Trying to get Intel hardware accelerated GPU video decoding working in Chromium running on Wayland has wasted me days of time with no resolution yet (tried ClearLinux and CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 16).
With Wayland on Intel hardware, only VLC player can make use of VAAPI but Chromium doesn't seem possible, which results in 100% (Celeron) CPU usage trying to view a local video in the browser using video.js player.
I'm going to ditch Wayland (Gnome) and try Xfce on my next attempt.