Posts by hofsd

  • Chromium Symantec Cert Problem

    Quote from lrusak


    the bump has already been merged, it just has to be built

    Thanks for the info!

    Will this build also fix the “Aw, snap!" I have it since 8.0.106 when visiting like Amazon.de

    Now there is the situation that I don't have any fallback solution to Chromium:
    - With "8.0.104 test" from your post and since LibreElec 7.95.1 I get "error certificate transparency required", befor it was ok. Till LibreElec 7.90.xxx there was not this issue even with same Chromium Version.
    - With 8.0.106 I get the “Aw, snap!" as mentioned above

    And how about the hw-acceleration? Is there any progress?
    When Hardware-accelerated video decode is enabled in chrome://flags/ it gives GpuProcessHostUIShim: The GPU process exited with code 256. and all GPU features are "Software only".

    Thanks for all your efforts!!!

  • Netflix Error in Chromium

    Quote from lrusak

    chromium needs to be updated, however HW accell seems to be broken in the new version.

    For those that want a test build there is one here, browser.chromium-8.0.104.zip
    This will only work on the latest Alpha (7.90.008)

    Hi Irusak!

    How about the status of the hardware acceleration?
    I have an AMD GPU (AMD E-350 CPU)using this test version browser.chromium-8.0.104

    There is somehow a strange behavior with the acceleration settings :

    TEST 1
    - Use hardware acceleration when available is checked
    - chrome://flags/
    Hardware-accelerated video decode Mac, Windows, Chrome OS
    Hardware-accelerated video decode where available. #disable-accelerated-video-decode
    Disable

    Result:
    - Video output is slow and stuttering even on low video resolutions as it seems the GPU is not activated

    Graphics Feature Status

    • Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Flash: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Flash Stage3D: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Compositing: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Multiple Raster Threads: Unavailable
    • Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
    • Rasterization: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
    • Video Encode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • VPx Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
    • WebGL: Unavailable

    TEST 2
    - Use hardware acceleration when available is checked
    - chrome://flags/
    Hardware-accelerated video decode Mac, Windows, Chrome OS
    Hardware-accelerated video decode where available. #disable-accelerated-video-decode
    Enable

    Result:
    - In the chromium task manager the GPU acceleration plugin is running so I expect the GPU acceleration is active.
    - Video output is better but at 1080p there are still stutters every 10-15 sec.

    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
    • Rasterization: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
    • VPx Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    • WebGL: Hardware accelerated

    Question:
    I wonder why I have to deactivate the hardware acceleration at chrome://flags/ to get some accelerations features enabled. Shouldn't it be opposite?!
    Running chrome in Windows this flag only has influence to the "Video Decode" feature. If the parameter is enabled "Video Decode" is GPU is active.
    If disabled "Video Decode" is software only.

    Anyway the "Video decode" feature is always shown as Software only whatever I set.

    The actual chromium 8.0.106 I can't test because I get the "Aw Snap!" but the results in the graphic feature status are same to the 8.0.104 Test Version.

    UPDATE:
    I did some play arround with the settings. Actually when the chrome://flags/ Hardware-accelerated video decode is enabled the GPU crash with this log message:

    GpuProcessHostUIShim: The GPU process exited with code 256.

    This is then the reason why all hardware features are disabled as shown in TEST1.

    So the question is what crashed the GPU process and how to solve this.

    Any hint would be helpful.

    Thanks!!