mpv on ChromeOS with Hardware acceleration
I recently started using my Chromebook more and was struggling to find a way to make the video playback smoother when using mpv running on ChromeOS.
I quickly realized the default config doesn't use hardware accel on ChromeOS as it is disabled for crostini.
I wrote a guide on how to enable it and use a custom config to enhance the user experience.
GitHub repo is a fork modified to enable mpv hw accel support in crostini.
https://iamarya2k24.github.io/posts/mpv-crostini-hwaccel-guide/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
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Chrome OS is a surveillance tool for Google and authorities, and should be illegal to give to minors.
It's actually illegal in EU, except for some reason EU is giving it a pass.
I agree, Linux laptops for everyone! Especially when we have immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Bazzite.
Does ChromeOS report everything you do to Google?
The Linux container is sand-boxed. but the chrome browser does by default send a lot of metrics back to Google.
EDIT: I only bought this device for experiments. It is a very low end, efficient laptop. I don't use it for anything else.
Source repo can be found here has instructions for standard Windows & Linux (separate branches).
Neat, I might have to try this out the next time I pull out my Chromebook. I did use it for a while when my desktop was out of commission, and this was the biggest issue I ran into. Had to dial YouTube videos down to 240p to get decent playback.
Excuse late reply. Let me know if it worked out for you.