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Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

works with portable, media percentage is non-zero (dependent on resolution) but only with X11/Xwayland. running it with wayland switches works but nets a 0% in media.

doesn't work at all with Appimage; won't start with wayland switches. without them starts but media at 0%.

works with flatpak, media is non-zero, under Xwayland. for some reason now won't start under wayland at all, possibly something I fucked up experimenting. works under wayland but zero media use.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    I don't know why, but the shortcut in the "Start" menu of KDE does not longer start FreeTube... Its Command-line arguments is 'run --branch=stable' --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/run.sh --file-forwarding io.freetubeapp.FreeTube @@u %u @@ . I have uninstalled FreeTube, deleted the shortcut so it is created from scratch and still does not start. It only starts from either commandline with regular flatpak command, or when I create a new shortcut with the arguments run io.freetubeapp.FreeTube --enable features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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%
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