On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Sean V Kelley <sean.v.kelley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:49:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds writes : >> [ Dave - your linux.ie email generates bounces for me, trying redhat instead ] >> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Sean V Kelley <sean.v.kelley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm also a bit bummed that hw acceleration of video doesn't seem to >> >> work on Haswell, meaning that full-screen is now a jerky mess. I fear >> >> that that is user-space libraries/X.org, but I thought I'd mention it >> >> in the hope of getting a "oh, it's working for us, you'll get a fix >> >> for it soon". >> > >> > Can you give a little more detail about video not working? Video >> > accel should work fine with the current versions of libva/intel-driver >> > available in Fedora 19 - assuming that's what you're using. >> >> It is indeed F19. >> >> Easy test: go to youtube, and watch things that are in 1080p HD. They >> play fine in a window (using about 70% CPU), but full-screened to >> 2560x1440 they play at about one or two frames per second. > > Yep. I see the same. Chrome is brain dead and appears to simply > rely on Flash + FFmpeg software codecs. At least with Firefox you > know it will suck and not be hw accelerated. Unless that has changed... > .... > > Ironically, it is relatively trivial for me to do a chromium browser > build form source myself and enable libva/intel-driver HW accel, h.264. And say > screw you to flash et al, and leave that out. And that will > work fine for html5 video on youtube with fallback to SW accel for VP8 > based content. Why it is a chore for Google is not clear to me... Google actually blacklists hardware video acceleration for Linux x86 in Chromium. My builds are based on ChromeOS' browser. That's how I get around it. For more details... https://codereview.chromium.org/16430003/ Sean > > Sean > >> >> My previous i5-670 which was inferior in almost every other way didn't >> have these problems.. It had the same 2560x1440 display. >> >> Linus -- Sean V. Kelley <sean.v.kelley@xxxxxxxxx> Open Source Technology Center / SSG Intel Corp. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
