Enabling Hardware decoding in Chrome/Chromium browser on Manjaro

1 · Shalmon Anandas · July 18, 2021, midnight
Install chrome or chromium Create a file named chrome-flags.conf in you .config folder touch ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf (If you are using chromium make a file named chromium-flags.conf instead) Populate the file with this --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder a. Check if vaapi drivers are installed Vainfo (If you get command not found install vainfo with sudo pacman -S libva-utils) Look for vainfo: VA-A...