Canonical and Intel Create Hardware Accelerated Chromium Snap
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/chromium-snap-hardware-acceleration-beta
If you run Ubuntu on a laptop or PC with 7th-generation Intel chips or later and you’re a fan of the Chromium browser, Canonical has something for you. It has partnered with Intel to create a Chromium snap that boasts hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding. Thus, this bespoke build offers better performance and extends battery life for Kaby Lake (7th Gen) and newer platforms when using VP8, VP9, and H.264 codecs than the “vanilla” build. And since those codecs are pretty ubiquitous in online content, and we all want better battery life, sounds like a win-win, doesn’t it? Alas, […] This post, Canonical and Intel Create Hardware Accelerated Chromium Snap is from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without (...)