running the stuff in the title, tried a buncha switches for chromium/electron stuff but still the load mesured with e.g. amdgpu_top doesn’t show “Media” usage. playing other stuff (VLC, Dragon, mpv) shows “Media” usage, which means those are using hardware acceleration.

edit: in the meantime tried the portable version as well, same results so it isn’t a flatpak issue.

edit 2: as @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml found, running portable and flatpak with --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks under X11/Xwayland produces hardware accelerated video. that doesn’t seem to be the case with wayland, the media graph stays at 0% and there’s a buncha dropped frames with e.g. 4K video.

  • glitching@lemmy.mlOP
    1·
    16 hours ago

    brah, it is not a flatpak issue, the same happens with the portable version i.e. the one you’d get via deb/rpm/whatevers. it doesn’t accelerate video under wayland but does with xwayland; If you got a commensurate rant towards wayland, ixnay please.

    as to why flatpak at all, I like my system stuff and my application stuff separate. thus my apps are all flatpak and autoupdated via systemd timer (another rant?) whereas my system stuff get updated like once a month or so as I hate rebooting.

    I’m sure you found by now that your use case doesn’t match everybody else’s, so chill with the absolutes a bit.

    • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      15 hours ago

      I ain’t your brah mate.

      Look, I am not that antagonistic man, no need to be this riled up. My main issue is that I lurk these threads to help people with their linux issues to help adoption, but we really have a lot of threads were flatpak is the issue, you can check the history.

      I am sorry you did check to see if the native one works and reproduced the issue, I somehow understood the exact contrary, I apologize.

      The next time I will ask the user to reproduce te issue with the native version before I start my rant.

      My usecase is to turn on my machine in the morning, edit some text files and run a browser and some command line tools. Then i turn it off in the evening, nothing special. I got no beef with wayland and especially nothing against systemd btw.

      Is there any chanche that your reboot aversion is due to wayland’s issues with session restoration?