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First and foremost thanks for the awesome work that has been done with elementary os - it truly is a work of art and I've donated to the project to show my support. I was able to successfully install juno on my chromebook, a samsung chromebook pro. It has an intel M3 processor and with its HIDPI display elementary looks amazing. The only issue I have is when I stream movies via plex or netflix the CPU usage in chrome or firefox goes through the roof. It jumps up to somewhere around 120-130% and the laptop gets physically hot. I've tried different kernels (installed via ukuu) from 4.16 all the way up to 4.19 and nothing seems to have helped. Any tips or other things I could try? I'd really love to get elementary dialed in on this machine. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately even with this flag set I am still seeing about 130-180% cpu usage during video playback. Here is a copy of what my chrome://gpu report looks like: Graphics Feature Status Canvas: Hardware accelerated Flash: Hardware accelerated Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated Compositing: Hardware accelerated Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled Hardware Protected Video Decode: Hardware accelerated Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled Skia Deferred Display List: Disabled Skia Renderer: Disabled Surface Synchronization: Enabled Video Decode: Hardware accelerated Viz Service Display Compositor: Disabled WebGL: Hardware accelerated WebGL2: Hardware accelerated Driver Bug Workarounds adjust_src_dst_region_for_blitframebuffer clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use count_all_in_varyings_packing decode_encode_srgb_for_generatemipmap disable_framebuffer_cmaa disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces msaa_is_slow scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args disabled_extension_GL_ARB_timer_query disabled_extension_GL_EXT_timer_query disabled_extension_GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced disabled_extension_GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent Problems Detected Clear uniforms before first program use on all platforms: 124764, 349137 Applied Workarounds: clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use Mesa drivers in Linux handle varyings without static use incorrectly: 333885 Applied Workarounds: count_all_in_varyings_packing Disable partial swaps on Mesa drivers (detected with GL_RENDERER): 339493 Applied Workarounds: disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces Always rewrite vec/mat constructors to be consistent: 398694 Applied Workarounds: scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args On Intel GPUs MSAA performance is not acceptable for GPU rasterization: 527565 Applied Workarounds: msaa_is_slow Timer queries crash on Intel GPUs on Linux: 540543, 576991 Applied Workarounds: disable(GL_ARB_timer_query), disable(GL_EXT_timer_query) Use GL_INTEL_framebuffer_CMAA on ChromeOS: 535198 Applied Workarounds: disable_framebuffer_cmaa Disable partial swaps on Mesa drivers (detected with GL_VERSION): 339493 Applied Workarounds: disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces Decode and encode before generateMipmap for srgb format textures on os except macosx: 634519 Applied Workarounds: decode_encode_srgb_for_generatemipmap adjust src/dst region if blitting pixels outside read framebuffer on Linux Intel: 664740 Applied Workarounds: adjust_src_dst_region_for_blitframebuffer Disable KHR_blend_equation_advanced until cc shaders are updated: 661715 Applied Workarounds: disable(GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced), disable(GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent) Native GpuMemoryBuffers have been disabled, either via about:flags or command line. Disabled Features: native_gpu_memory_buffers Viz service display compositor is not enabled by default. Disabled Features: viz_display_compositor Skia renderer is not used by default. Disabled Features: skia_renderer Skia deferred display list is not used by default. Disabled Features: skia_deferred_display_list Version Information Data exported 2018-11-07T15:28:46.500Z Chrome version Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Operating system Linux 4.15.0-38-generic Software rendering list URL https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0f6ce0b0cd63a12cb4eccea3637b1bc9a29148d9/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json Driver bug list URL https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0f6ce0b0cd63a12cb4eccea3637b1bc9a29148d9/gpu/config/gpu_driver_bug_list.json ANGLE commit id 05c729f336ef 2D graphics backend Skia/70 193565807f7fd2a2c14e21b44c545cc03ebe134f- Command Line /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --flag-switches-begin --ignore-gpu-blacklist --flag-switches-end Driver Information Initialization time 47 In-process GPU false Passthrough Command Decoder false Sandboxed true GPU0 VENDOR = 0x8086 [Intel Open Source Technology Center], DEVICE= 0x191e [Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 515 (Skylake GT2) ] *ACTIVE* Optimus false AMD switchable false Driver vendor Mesa Driver version 18.0.5 Driver date GPU CUDA compute capability major version 0 Pixel shader version 1.30 Vertex shader version 1.30 Max. MSAA samples 16 Machine model name
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You need to enable Hardware Acceleration to avoid using the CPU for video

(check status on chrome://gpu)

  • Go to chrome://flags in Chrome

  • Find & enable "Override software rendering list"

  • Restart Chrome

  • Check the status again and you will see the green text Hardware accelerated on WebGL and Video Decode among others

You can go to chrome://media-internals/ and see what's currently playing and there you can see details of the videos playing by chrome

UPDATE

I was reading and found a pretty convincing solution Youtube uses vp9 and vp8 codec and now only latests GPU can decode vp9. The solution is to force Youtube to use h264

For Chrome you have this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal/related

For Firefox you have this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/h264ify/

YT probably has not re-encoded all videos to VP9 yet, they used to be VP8. Only newer GPUs can decode VP9 on hardware. For example, GeForce 970 can't, but 1070 can. When GPU can't decode on hardware, the task falls to CPU.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/7qafpj/high_cpu_usage_with_youtube/dsnst89

The issue is that with Netflix and other services choosing VP9, you are stuck decoding it through the CPU.

UPDATE 2

  • So, to be able to have a browser with hardware acceleration we need Chromium with a VAAPI patch

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-beta

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

  • Then open Chromium and go to chrome://flags/#enable-accelerated-video

ENABLE it and restart Chromium

  • Now you need to install your VAAPI driver, probably you have it. That you'll have to check for yourself because I really don't know which one you need. For Intel GPU some sites say you need i965-va-driver

sudo apt install i965-va-driver

You can check the status with vainfo

sudo apt install vainfo

  • Finally install h264ify (link above - For Chrome) to force Youtube to use h264. If you GPU can decode VP9 you don't need this.

=== Widevine Support ===

The packages in this PPA have support for Widevine inside Chromium enabled. However, you still need to copy some files from Chrome into Chromium for you to use Netflix (or other websites using Encrypted Media Extensions) in Chromium.

  1. Download and install Chrome (or extract the necessary files, if you know how to do that).
  2. From the Chrome installation directory (probably /opt/google/chome or something similar), copy libwidevinecdm.so into ~/.config/chromium.
  3. Restart Chromium.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-beta

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