[ABANDONED] Chromium in deb format with VAAPI support
PPA description
==NOTICE==
This PPA was abandoned at the end of 2020 and probably won't be updated anymore.
Recommended alternatives: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
Reasons to drop it:
1) VAAPI (hardware video decoding for Intel/AMD on X11) was the main reason to maintain it. Since version 88 it should be available for all Chromium-based browsers. Copy address bellow to your address bar and check if it's enabled (may work for other Chromium-based browsers (e.g. Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Edge))
chrome:
2) Since March 15 2021 Sync wouldn't work because Google denied usage of GOOGLE_API_KEY for anything other than Google Chrome.
3) ARM64 builds probably would be useful for someone but unfortunately I don't have devices to test it.
===Old description===
Chromium in deb format with VAAPI support
* Copied sources from Bionic repository or from "stage for security updates" (https:/
* Enabled VAAPI components building in debian/rules and debian/control
* Enabled VAAPI by default
* Applied additional Fedora patches
* enable-
* fix-vaapi-
(https:/
* Builds for current LTS (Focal, 20.04) and previous (Bionic, 18.04 (with workaround to disable some 10-bit formats because libva is too old))
* ARM64 is not tested
* Currently doesn't work with Wayland or NVidia hardware
Other options for Ubuntu: saiarcot895 ppa (needs GOOGLE_API_KEY which can be extracted from sources of this or "staging" ppa), Brave, ungoogled-chromium.
In order to avoid installation of snap package on Ubuntu 20.04, you can "pin" this PPA with a command bellow:
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-
Pin-Priority: 1337
EOF
Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:xalt7x/chromium-deb-vaapi to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xalt7x/chromium-deb-vaapi sudo apt update
For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact xalt7x.
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chromium-browser | 87.0.4280.88-0ubuntu0.20.04.1.1~vaapi (Newer version available) | xalt7x () |
chromium-browser | 87.0.4280.88-0ubuntu0.18.04.1.1~vaapi (Newer version available) | xalt7x () |
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