| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/brave-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | brave-bin |
| Description: | Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release) |
| Upstream URL: | https://brave.com |
| Keywords: | brave browser |
| Licenses: | BSD, MPL2, custom:chromium |
| Conflicts: | brave |
| Provides: | brave, brave-browser |
| Submitter: | toropisco |
| Maintainer: | brave |
| Last Packager: | brave |
| Votes: | 875 |
| Popularity: | 19.37 |
| First Submitted: | 2016-04-06 13:16 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-05-07 17:04 (UTC) |
Sorry, but I don't think it's worth reworking the PKGBUILD and adding unnecessary risk using a release not meant for us for 33MB.
Not meant for us? Fedora and Ubuntu are Linux distributions, just like Arch. Those packages include even the desktop entry and logos, so you don't have to provide yours outside. Maybe it's worth give them a try. Google Chrome on AUR is made from the official deb package.
The scaling problem appears to have been fixed with the newest release. Thanks for the help again mixedCase (o:
@mixedCase Simply adding that flag does show video hardware acceleration on paper. But looking at any videos I found it's using ""Dav1dVideoDecoder" and looking at the CPU usage, I think it's not using GPU for video decoding.
I believe it used to have a build parameter that allows GPU video decoding. Can we get it back?
[update] Just checked the official deb packages. It seems they have switched to compile with vaapi off. I guess unless we compile it ourselves, there's nothing we can do.
[update] OK, filed an issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16392
[update] My bad. I probably just played a video that's encoded using AV1. But most of other videos are indeed decoded using GPU. Confirmed by using the media tab of the inspector. Sorry for the confusion.
@mixedCase Thanks, that seems to work :)
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
OpenGL: Enabled
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
@maverick1 Sorry, but I don't think it's worth reworking the PKGBUILD and adding unnecessary risk using a release not meant for us for 33MB.
@francoism90 That feature moved to a command line parameter when the rebase to Chromium 91 occurred:
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder
You can add it to your .config/brave-flags.conf for convenience.
Seems hardware video decoding support has been removed, is it possible to enable the video_decode flag again?
Can you switch to the .deb package instead of the .zip one? Its saves 33 MB of download.
@mixedCase Yup; running it with --force-device-scale-factor=2 fixes the problem for now.
@mixedCase Thanks; I'll have a look at it. And thank you for maintaining the package.
@Parintachin I don't support Manjaro. Regardless, sounds like a Google-upstream problem, but I suggest looking at this to see if it helps you override whatever the browser's doing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Chromium_/_Google_Chrome
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brave commented on 2025-04-25 13:00 (UTC)