What's the state of hardware acceleration on Linux, Wayland?

[csswright]

What's the state of hardware acceleration on Linux, Wayland (Intel)? I came across some discussions but it doesn't seem clear the direction of FreeTube. Is it still an Electron app? Would it be possible to have hardware acceleration eventually?

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Wayland support in Chromium is experimental. If you want to use it you need to pass flags to enable that

[csswright]

Thanks. Is there any sort of debug mode to see if the flags work? I pass e.g. --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL to freetube and monitor CPU usage with htop, but there's no output from running the command from the terminal to suggest those settings are in effect (I even made a typo to check if there's any errors). It would be nice to be able to log the output (or anything that offers more than getting a sense of whether CPU load is reduced with flags used), especially since it's considered experimental.

[absidue]

If you open the GPU internals page from the View menu (on Windows and Linux you'll have to press Alt to show the app menu first) and then scroll all the way down to Video Acceleration Information, specifically the decoding part of it will tell what FreeTube will be able to hardware decode with your current GPU, drivers and flags combination. Just so you are aware even if you pass all the flags in the world there is still no guarantee that it will work and if it doesn't there is also nothing we can do about it from our side.