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
    1·
    3 hours ago

    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.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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

      • glitching@lemmy.mlOP
        2·
        3 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·
          3 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·
            3 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·
              2 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·
                2 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…