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Xiaogang Li edited this page Oct 14, 2022 · 2 revisions

Install media driver following Build media driver from source code
Install Chrome browser if you don't have.
Hardware accelerated video decoding is available on Intel via VA-API in the latest Chrome browser, but seems it's not enabled by default. We should enable it by running following command:

$ google-chrome --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder

For test purpose, install h264ify extension which makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.

Then play video in YouTube to check if hardware decoding worked.
Install intel-gpu-tools which can help to check if hardware decoding is enabled.

$ sudo apt install intel-gpu-tools
$ intel_gpu_top

Following is an example, if have workloads in Video engine, then hardware decoding works.