New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there video conferencing software for Linux AND hardware-accelerated?
Ask HN: Is there video conferencing software for Linux AND hardware-accelerated?
2 by ronjouch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This is a spin-off question from a comment on HN post "Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom" ( https://meet.jit.si/ , https://ift.tt/2JcltCO ). Everything I tried (Jitsi on Firefox or Chrome, Skype, Hangouts/Meet, Zoom, Slack) consumes a full CPU all the time (a.k.a. no hardware acceleration), making fans spin and slowing down other work. I'm using Arch Linux & Xorg on a recent Thinkpad with Intel CPU & GPU, and the packages mentioned by the Intel section of https://ift.tt/23Wfkf2 (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver, linux-firmware) are installed. In the aforementioned post, user jasondclinton says that hardware video decoding is coming to Firefox on Wayland ( https://ift.tt/2JehSUQ , https://ift.tt/3b8xN38 , https://ift.tt/38lfHsM ). So if I understand correctly, this means conferencing over WebRTC with codecs H264/VP9/VP8 (and maybe others? The merge request says it "enables VA-API for all formats" ) will be accelerated in Firefox on Wayland. That's good and I'll try it. Apart from that, - Do you know of any other options? Regarding Zoom/Slack/Skype/etc, I'm not very surprised: Linux market share is low, so from a money perspective, fixing this may not be the best spending of engineer time. - Finally, I'm surprised that acceleration could be missing in Chrome on Linux, because Google must have worked on it to ship a good Google Hangouts/Meet experience on low-powered Chromebooks. Am I missing anything? (Is there a flag / dependency / binary package I could need to enable it in non-Chromebook Chrome?) Is video acceleration really positively nonexistent on Chrome/Chromium on Linux?! Thanks!
2 by ronjouch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This is a spin-off question from a comment on HN post "Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom" ( https://meet.jit.si/ , https://ift.tt/2JcltCO ). Everything I tried (Jitsi on Firefox or Chrome, Skype, Hangouts/Meet, Zoom, Slack) consumes a full CPU all the time (a.k.a. no hardware acceleration), making fans spin and slowing down other work. I'm using Arch Linux & Xorg on a recent Thinkpad with Intel CPU & GPU, and the packages mentioned by the Intel section of https://ift.tt/23Wfkf2 (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver, linux-firmware) are installed. In the aforementioned post, user jasondclinton says that hardware video decoding is coming to Firefox on Wayland ( https://ift.tt/2JehSUQ , https://ift.tt/3b8xN38 , https://ift.tt/38lfHsM ). So if I understand correctly, this means conferencing over WebRTC with codecs H264/VP9/VP8 (and maybe others? The merge request says it "enables VA-API for all formats" ) will be accelerated in Firefox on Wayland. That's good and I'll try it. Apart from that, - Do you know of any other options? Regarding Zoom/Slack/Skype/etc, I'm not very surprised: Linux market share is low, so from a money perspective, fixing this may not be the best spending of engineer time. - Finally, I'm surprised that acceleration could be missing in Chrome on Linux, because Google must have worked on it to ship a good Google Hangouts/Meet experience on low-powered Chromebooks. Am I missing anything? (Is there a flag / dependency / binary package I could need to enable it in non-Chromebook Chrome?) Is video acceleration really positively nonexistent on Chrome/Chromium on Linux?! Thanks!
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