Tweaks Menu: Chromium Enable h265 videos

[tarekbecker]

I noticed that chromium cannot play h265 videos. The following flags enable the HardwareAcceleration and shall improve the performance with wayland

• Arch Wiki on Hardware Acceleration

Please let me know, if a migration file is required for this or what else is missing.

Thanks
Tarek

[ryanrhughes]

Odd that's not enabled by default.

Just a simple migration using omarchy-refresh-config to update that file should do it.

[tarekbecker]

@ryanrhughes added the migration

[woopstar]

Seems important:)

[woopstar]

@tarekbecker Please resolve conflicts

[tarekbecker]

@woopstar resolved

[dhh]

We had another PR for the same thing. Unfortunately having these on by default means instability and crashes and glitches on some systems. That's why it's not turned on by default by Chromium. So I don't think we can have it on.

But what I WOULD like to see is basically a Setup > Tweaks section where we can add stuff like that that we can't ship by default, but that many folks might like to do after an install. So this could enable under Setup > Tweaks > Enable Chromium H265 Decoding or something like that.

[sgruendel]

Hey @tarekbecker do you have a web page with an embedded h265 video to test this, I have found https://h265.webmfiles.org/embed-h265-video.php and both embedded videos don't work for me?

[tarekbecker]

At least for me, your site shows an error in the console with name not found.

Check this out: https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h265

The download file links play the videos for me if I have the flags enabled (you need to close all chromium sessions beforehand)

[sgruendel]

At least for me, your site shows an error in the console with name not found.

Ah same for me, hadn't checked console output.

Check this out: https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h265

The download file links play the videos for me if I have the flags enabled (you need to close all chromium sessions beforehand)

Had found that page too but was confused by the download link, videos play fine, thanks :) Also Dev Tools > Media confirms that hardware decoder is used.

[tarekbecker]

We had another PR for the same thing. Unfortunately having these on by default means instability and crashes and glitches on some systems. That's why it's not turned on by default by Chromium. So I don't think we can have it on.

But what I WOULD like to see is basically a Setup > Tweaks section where we can add stuff like that that we can't ship by default, but that many folks might like to do after an install. So this could enable under Setup > Tweaks > Enable Chromium H265 Decoding or something like that.

I'll work on a suggestion

[tarekbecker]

@dhh Added a tweaks menu that allows toggling the flags.

Brave is not tested yet.

[dhh]

I still like this, but it's way too much code. We should be able to just use grep + sed to check if the line we want is there and otherwise add it. Don't need to detect the browser either, just try to do it for both configs directly.