mpv on ChromeOS with Hardware acceleration

https://iamarya2k24.github.io/posts/mpv-crostini-hwaccel-guide/

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.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d (1 reply)

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.

nki@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 163d

I agree, Linux laptops for everyone! Especially when we have immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Bazzite.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d (1 reply)

Does ChromeOS report everything you do to Google?

nki@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 163d

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.

nki@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 163d

Source repo can be found here has instructions for standard Windows & Linux (separate branches).

b000rg@midwest.social · 3 pts · 162d (1 reply)

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.

nki@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 71d

Excuse late reply. Let me know if it worked out for you.