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Fenixian
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Calling GNU/Linux users.

Hi everybody!

As everyone know, Chomium (Chrome) has not (official)hardware video acceleration. This is not a great issue with last hardware, but limit the use of Stadia. And is a real waste of resource when you are playing games in the platform.

Chromium is not really interested in make this feature in a near future (the cost in time and resources are important), but maybe Google (Stadia) may put some resources into it and maintain this part into Chromium. So I was thinking we can make some friendly group action to notice this to Google Stadia throw support & suggestion or whatever. I know video hardware acceleration is complicated in Linux, but maybe a simple push to VAAPI integration could make a big step.

I don't know how many Linux users we are here. But I guess a suggestion with fifty or one hundred users is better that a lonely message. :slightly_smiling_face:

So, if you are a Linux user or know someone (show this thread), we can think some action in this thread to bring this wished so long time feature into GNU/Linux. Stadia users will be really happy and Linux community, too.

Of course if someone have another idea we may do, it will be welcome.

 

Thanks!

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Orgin
Founder
Founder

I wonder if canonical etc is aware of the issue. It should be in the linux distrubitionists interest to get stadia running properly on their platforms.

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Dare
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

If I'm not mistaken, these days it's as simple as installing and official build of Chrome, going to chrome://settings/, and enabling hardware acceleration.

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Fenixian
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Unfortunately is not so easy, @Dare .

Hardware video acceleration is only available in a unofficial patch in Chromium. But, as far as I know, the latest Chromium version make it incompatible. Chrome doesn't make use of unofficial patch, only official compilation and things they do.

So, the only way is that someone help Chromium to make possible hardware video acceleration into GNU/Linux version.

Firefox are doing some movement, but Chromium is stuck with other things.

 

To everyone: if you don't use GNU/Linux, but know people do, it would be great notice them this thread and voice this to other social networks.

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icg837
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hello. I'll post my experience so far with this trouble.

I'm using Arch Linux right now. Before I was using Manjaro, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. On every distro, using or Chromium or Google Chrome or Brave, installing vaapi or video-intel or whatever package (or even with no install), and enabling hardware acceleration in every browser with whatever video render package I could install, I was unable to use Stadia at 1080p. For the record, I'm using a Mac Mini, and this is not a problem because I could play Stadia with Microsoft Edge at 1080p smoothly, but for other reasons I couldn't use Windows as I wanted.

And this is not a problem of Linux, besides this problem being present on every Linux distro I used. I say that because I'm using Chromium OS right now, which is based on Linux, and I can use Stadia at 1080p smoothly, installing no obsucre packages at all and doing nothing but execute Chromium browser and ready to go.

I don't know who is to blame or who has the ultimate responsibility, but it's a pain reboot to Chromium OS and afterwards reboot to my Linux distro, and so on.

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RXShorty
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I am running Ubuntu with Chrome and the Stadia+ plugin and have enabled the force VP9 in these settings.
Now the complete load comes to the CPU which does needs to work for it.

Right now running Ubuntu on my HP Envy with AMD Ryzen 7 3700u.
Not sure if the hardware mode is possible with this processor, tried some solutions but none of them worked.

Would love to see some native GPU support. :slightly_smiling_face: 

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