Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs

An anonymous reader writes "Citing 'code we consider to be permanently "experimental" or "beta,"' Google Chrome engineers have no plans on enabling video acceleration in the Chrome/Chromium web browser. Code has been written but is permanently disabled by default because 'supporting GPU features on Linux is a nightmare' due to the reported sub-par quality of Linux GPU drivers and many different Linux distributions. Even coming up with a Linux GPU video acceleration white-list has been shot down over fear of the Linux video acceleration code causing stability issues and problems for Chrome developers. What have been your recent experiences with Linux GPU drivers?"

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Re:Still requires an "advanced" user skillset

[jedidiah]

You're whining about the difficulties of using Linux for gaming and whatnot and then you declare that you bought yourself a Mac.

That's funny.

The crapulence of Mac hardware is perhaps the single biggest disadvantage of using MacOS. While MacOS itself may be nice, and a preloaded "Unix" might be nice, the choices that Apple makes in terms of hardware blow bloody chunks.

Plus Apple's equivalent of PureVideo/VDPAU doesn't even expose all of those available features.

If you're willing to use a lame Intel GPU, you really don't have to bother with Macs.