Would you play stadia at 720p or 480p? It looks horrible.
I revisited stadia today hoping after a long break that they'd have gotten hardware-accelerated video decoding working on linux. It doesn't seem like they do, so we're stuck with software-decoded, low-quality stadia streams.
Bonkers. Does this tie into some of the things I read about organizational support shifting/decreasing for stadia at Google? Maybe this is never going to happen? I guess I just want to make sure before I write it off.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux
@jasko I've never run Stadia on Linux, so personally can't give useful input. However, I came across this Reddit thread and the user claims they're able to run 4k. Perhaps this is something that you can try?
It might also be worth to look at other comments on this post and see if there's you can try.
As for Chrome browser on Linux not supporting hardware-accelerated video decoding, I would I assume this is just limitation of the browser in general (not only Stadia is impacted). Perhaps it's worth it to bring up the issue in Chrome help community as well:
https://support.google.com/chrome/community
Hope you'll be able to find solution/workaround soon.
Hi @jasko,
Doing a bit of searching online I found that chrome video hardware support has been lacking, to say the least, since before 2019.
I found an article from 2014 saying "ENABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION IN CHROME / CHROMIUM BROWSER"
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/enable-hardware-acceleration-in-chrome.html
I have to agree with @Ivan with trying to reach out to the chrome team and let them know of this problem. I myself used linux before and I could not get hardware acceleration enabled. I don't use linux that often to play on stadia. I normally use it for mostly development