@JstKddng Thank you! Your version is the best working VAAPI-enabled ungoogled chromium. I'd love to see your version in official AUR.
After compile I did a brief CPU load test using a random Youtube video in 1080p/50fps, rendered to a 1080p 60fps screen. CPU was a fanless Pentium Silver N5000 with 6W TDP (Acer Swift 1, model SF114-32, stock 8GB RAM 256GB SSD). I have kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 active to enable native sandboxing, also using i3 on X11, modesetting driver, libva-intel-driver (intel-media-driver appears to have seeking problems still).
The CPU pretty much stays at the base clock of 1100 MHz all the time, although it could burst to 2700 MHz if necessary. Various chromium processes were using around 60% of one core in total. So pretty decent headroom here.
The only value in chromium-flags.conf necessary was --ignore-gpu-blacklist, dark mode stuff aside. Everything else led to glitches, did not exist in chrome://flags, or did not lower CPU load in any for me discernable way.
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JstKddng commented on 2022-05-06 14:37 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-27 13:48 (UTC) by JstKddng)
A new va-api patch for wayland has been added. Required flags for it to work are the following, thanks to @acidunit
JstKddng commented on 2020-07-19 06:34 (UTC)
You can get prebuilt binaries here:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux#binary-downloads
seppia commented on 2018-12-12 21:34 (UTC)
Please do NOT flag this package as out of date in relation to official chromium releases.
This is NOT Google Chromium and new releases come after additional work of the ungoogled-chromium contributors, so they may not be ready, nor available for days or even weeks after a new version of official chromium is released.
Please refer to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tags for ungoogled-chromium releases. Use those and please flag this package as out of date only if a newer release is present there. I will update the PKGBUILD as soon as I can every time a new release comes out.
Thanks