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Bogdan
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No hardware acceleration on Linux?

I just finished playing on Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 15 (9550) with GTX960M and is the first time since 2 years when my laptop had to do "emergency shut down". It was as hot as a thermal brick pulled out from the oven. Please give to Linux players some extra love. Stadia: play anywhere... write?
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ThOR27
Founder
Founder

That is the good old problem for the lack of hardware video decode on Linux browsers that got worse with Stadia.

Also, first you need to make sure your VGA supports VP8/9 decode on hardware:

  1. open nvidia-settings.
  2. X Screen 0 > VDPAU Information
  3. Look if VP8 or VP9 is on "Supported Codecs"

Since your VGA is not that old, VP9 is probably supported, so you could try this trick to make it work: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/08/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerated.html

For me that I have an old GTX680,  no VP8/9 support at all :disappointed_face: At least my screen is full HD only and my CPU can handle the software decode in this case.

 

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Gaspi
Community Member

Not such a problem like yours, but this makes stadia unplayable on my Arch Linux laptop. Video decodes slowly on CPU, so audio and image are unsynchronized most of the time until image catches up. In conclusion, it doesn't turn off by a heat issue but it turns out not a good experience. Please add hardware acceleration support to Linux. Isn't stadia meant to be played on everything with a screen and a chrome browser?
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Orgin
Founder
Founder

Do note that not all gfx cards do VP9 native decoding. If you have a nvidia card, check the nvidia config for supported decoders.

 

 

(And also, if your setup is too slow to decode the stream, try setting Data usage & performance to "limited data usage" which requires lees beefy hardware)

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