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Bram0007
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Vp9 stadia hardware decoding

Hey,

I`m tryning to play stadia with my laptop (debian unstable). Already installed chromium with vaapi support. When i go to youtube and start a video with VP9. I see that it use "MojoVideoDecoder" driver. But when i run stadia it will fallback to: "VpxVideoDecoder".

With this i have a huge lag and i cannot play any game on my laptop from stadia.

libva info: VA-API version 1.5.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_4
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

.... ...

VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD

VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD

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Valynor
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VP9 decoding in hardware needs an 8th+ gen Intel CPU and a supported OS. 

Chrome on Linux unfortunately doesn't support GPU acceleration. :disappointed_face:

I'd strongly advise against using that very old experimental Chromium build with VAAPI enabled ... it surely has hundreds of unpatched  vulnerabilities today.

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Bram0007
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Thanks i`ll already use this one. With YOutube vp9 video`s i have hardware decoding. But after stadia it`s fallbacks to software rendering.
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codesplice
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@Bram0007 I've seen some indications that Stadia works best on Linux when using the official Google Chrome release instead of Chromium. Have you tried that to see if it makes any performance difference?

https://www.google.com/chrome/?platform=linux

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Orgin
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When you have tried all other remedies with no effect then do this: In the Stadia app, click on you avatar. Click Data usage & performance. Select "Limited data usage" Restart stadia on your computer. You'll be able to play with no noticeable input lag, but it won't look as good as you might want it to. I'm on Ubuntu and this is the only thing that helped me.
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Bram0007
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Thats a good one didnt know this options.

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