running the stuff in the title, tried a buncha switches for chromium/electron stuff but still the load mesured with e.g. amdgpu_top doesn’t show “Media” usage. playing other stuff (VLC, Dragon, mpv) shows “Media” usage, which means those are using hardware acceleration.

edit: in the meantime tried the portable version as well, same results so it isn’t a flatpak issue.

edit 2: as @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml found, running portable and flatpak with --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks under X11/Xwayland produces hardware accelerated video. that doesn’t seem to be the case with wayland, the media graph stays at 0% and there’s a buncha dropped frames with e.g. 4K video.

  • glitching@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    5 hours ago

    check if you have runaway processes: ps aux | grep -i freetube then kill them if they’re there. also flatpak settings, here are mine:

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 hours ago

      For whatever reason the arguments got additional quotation marks 'run --branch=stable' which messed up the command… deleting the quotation marks runs fine now. Weird… probably a bug from KDE when I tried to add the other options. Well thanks, now it runs with the original shortcut again. Thanks for the screenshot, helped me seeing the issue instantly.

      • glitching@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        5 hours ago

        cool beans. can you confirm your flatpak settings, are they for X or wayland? if you run freetube and run xlsclients in terminal, does it return empty? and if freetube runs in wayland, does it say 0% in media when you playback?

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I don’t know how to do a screenshot of the entire window that scrolls outside the view… i know skill issues. :D Well in Flatseal some relevant settings are X11 windowing system = ON, Wayland windowing system = OFF, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:

          • xlsclients returns “freetube”
          • With the enabled acceleration features using cmdline: “Media” activity is active (as soon as I play a video)
          • Without the extra features: “Media” activity is 0%

          Unfortunately if I enable Wayland (just reverse ON / OFF X11 and Wayland setting in Flatseal), the Media activity is unused. Following settings and results are…

          X11 windowing system = OFF, Wayland windowing system = ON, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:

          • xlsclients returns “” (empty)
          • With the enabled acceleration features using cmdline: “Media” activity is 0%
          • Without the extra features: “Media” activity is 0%
          • glitching@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            4 hours ago

            yeah, that jives with what I got here. wayland - no HW accel, xwayland - HW accel. so I guess that’s it, for the time being…