BETA: Chromium v51 ARMv6 w/ HW video acceleration (updated)

[aworan]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to release it and I don't want to right now. It is up to the RPF. If you're curious, it is just a extra file with MMAL calls.

Ok, I was thinking of patching an armv7 version of chromium and trying it in Ubuntu Mate with my rpi3.
Maybe I can get the extra binary file from the chromium .deb and try to add it to a armv7 .deb ?
I will wait

[Rascas]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to release it and I don't want to right now. It is up to the RPF. If you're curious, it is just a extra file with MMAL calls.

Ok, I was thinking of patching an armv7 version of chromium and trying it in Ubuntu Mate with my rpi3.
Maybe I can get the extra binary file from the chromium .deb and try to add it to a armv7 .deb ?
I will wait

Maybe I am missing something, but the open source graphics driver (OpenGL) doesn't have access to the HW video acceleration of the RPi SoC, which is closed source. That's probably why it is crashing currently with it. So, unless you wanted to run Chromium on RPi 0/1, there is no point of running this version with the open source graphics driver (OpenGL).

[dom]

It is somewhere I can find the patch code ?

When the deb file reaches the raspberrypi repository there will be a corresponding src package which will contain any changes.

[Trixster]

I must be doing something quite wrong, because the latest update buffers and stutters more than ever for me in youtube, both in cinema mode and full screen mode, to the point where anything other than the standard small screen is unwatchable.

Windowed HD Vimeo streams seem to work fine but fullscreen Vimeo stutters every few seconds.

I have run sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo rpi-update and then rebooted.

[mrpoopy]

Hi, is there any way to force hardware acceleration on canvas when using the gl video driver? chrome://gpu shows: "Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable."

[kusti8]

I must be doing something quite wrong, because the latest update buffers and stutters more than ever for me in youtube, both in cinema mode and full screen mode, to the point where anything other than the standard small screen is unwatchable.

Windowed HD Vimeo streams seem to work fine but fullscreen Vimeo stutters every few seconds.

I have run sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo rpi-update and then rebooted.

Huh. You do have h264ify? I would try a different new SD card and see if it works on a fresh install.

[kusti8]

Hi, is there any way to force hardware acceleration on canvas when using the gl video driver? chrome://gpu shows: "Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable."

This is not the correct place to talk about this, but you need to remove the blacklist in chrome://flags. There is no advantage to using Chromium with the OpenGL driver because software acceleration is actually faster.

[Trixster]

Yes, h264ify is installed.

I must be doing something quite wrong, because the latest update buffers and stutters more than ever for me in youtube, both in cinema mode and full screen mode, to the point where anything other than the standard small screen is unwatchable.

Windowed HD Vimeo streams seem to work fine but fullscreen Vimeo stutters every few seconds.

I have run sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo rpi-update and then rebooted.

Huh. You do have h264ify? I would try a different new SD card and see if it works on a fresh install.

[Trixster]

Do we need to uninstall this beta version of chromium before updating to the new Pixel version?

[kusti8]

Do we need to uninstall this beta version of chromium before updating to the new Pixel version?

You shouldn't need to. Just upgrade everything.

[Trixster]

Should i comment out deb http://dl.bintray.com/kusti8/chromium-rpi jessie main dev in etc/apt/sources.list first?

[kusti8]

Should i comment out deb http://dl.bintray.com/kusti8/chromium-rpi jessie main dev in etc/apt/sources.list first?

Doesn't matter. The new version will replace it anyway.

[Trixster]

Cool! thanks.

[aworan]

When the deb file reaches the raspberrypi repository there will be a corresponding src package which will contain any changes.

Hi,
I tried to get source package but it not available !
apt-get source give me a chromium 53 source package which seems to be without hw.
I check manually the archive and the location where is the chromium 51 package have not a source package associated.
So if it is some place form source code where I could find it ?

Thank you

[dom]

I tried to get source package but it not available !
apt-get source give me a chromium 53 source package which seems to be without hw.

Okay, it seems producing an apt source package is not trivial. It's something we'd like to get working, but it may take a little while.
For now we've decided to publish the patches in github. The first should appear tomorrow.

If you can't wait, then grab sources for chrome tag 51.0.2704.91 and apply this patch:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvtkonasr9cr7 ... patch?dl=0

[aworan]

I tried to get source package but it not available !
apt-get source give me a chromium 53 source package which seems to be without hw.

Okay, it seems producing an apt source package is not trivial. It's something we'd like to get working, but it may take a little while.
For now we've decided to publish the patches in github. The first should appear tomorrow.

If you can't wait, then grab sources for chrome tag 51.0.2704.91 and apply this patch:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvtkonasr9cr7 ... patch?dl=0

Thank you I will wait tomorrow

[dom]

We'll keep the chromium patches here for now:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/chromium_patches

[czar1na]

I am following the steps in OP for installing beta chromium on my Zero. When I get to the rpi-update step, I see an error:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo rpi-update
 *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom
 *** Performing self-update
/usr/bin/rpi-update: line 45:  4133 Illegal instruction     curl -Ls --output "${_tempFileName}" "${UPDATE_URI}"
 !!! Failed to download update for rpi-update!
 !!! Make sure you have ca-certificates installed and that the time is set correctly

Any suggestions? Thank you!

[fruitoftheloom]

I am following the steps in OP for installing beta chromium on my Zero. When I get to the rpi-update step, I see an error:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo rpi-update
 *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom
 *** Performing self-update
/usr/bin/rpi-update: line 45:  4133 Illegal instruction     curl -Ls --output "${_tempFileName}" "${UPDATE_URI}"
 !!! Failed to download update for rpi-update!
 !!! Make sure you have ca-certificates installed and that the time is set correctly

Any suggestions? Thank you!

If you have installed Raspbian Jessie and fully updated then chromium-browser is now included by default:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel

[DougieLawson]

1. Don't run rpi-update

2. Check your network routing
3. Check your /etc/resolv.conf has a nameserver your can reach

Option 1 is best.

[siqneibi]

Hello,

Great work! Video playback is smooth on chromium v56 on rpi 3.
I see that the last major work on github for this project was Feb 2017.
Is the development on this project still active?
If yes, then when do you plan to port those changes to chromium v59?

Best regards,
Sami

[kusti8]

Hello,

Great work! Video playback is smooth on chromium v56 on rpi 3.
I see that the last major work on github for this project was Feb 2017.
Is the development on this project still active?
If yes, then when do you plan to port those changes to chromium v59?

Best regards,
Sami

Development is still active. I'm not the one making the changes to Chromium, simply building and packaging them. A port for v60 is in the works.

[steffend]

Development is still active. I'm not the one making the changes to Chromium, simply building and packaging them. A port for v60 is in the works.

@kusti8 Do you know if it would be possible to build electron (based on chromium) with hardware video decoding using one of these patches? The official instructions are available here, but I've got no experience at all building chromium/electron, so maybe you could help me.

Another question: Is it a known problem that Chromium crashes "Aw, Snap!" when trying to play videos while having the new OpenGL driver active (use-gl=egl)? This is particularly sad because that's the only way css animations are looking smooth. So it seems video playback vs. animations, but not both at the same time...

EDIT: Raspbian Stretch, Kernel 4.9.73-v7+, Chromium 60.0.3112.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1010+1

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[  923.720989] Modules linked in: fuse rfcomm cmac bnep hci_uart btbcm bluetooth joydev evdev panel_raspberrypi_touchscreen hid_logitech_hidpp vc4 brcmfmac drm_kms_helper brcmutil drm cfg80211 rfkill snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_bcm2835 snd_pcm_dmaengine syscopyarea sysfillrect snd_pcm sysimgblt i2c_gpio fb_sys_fops i2c_algo_bit snd_timer snd i2c_bcm2835 bcm2835_gpiomem uio_pdrv_genirq uio fixed hid_logitech_dj i2c_dev ip_tables x_tables ipv6
[  923.721089] CPU: 1 PID: 471 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 4.9.73-v7+ #1072
[  923.721091] Hardware name: BCM2835
[  923.721115] [<8010fa48>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<8010c058>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
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[nmcfh]

Hi!
Is there any ongoing work to update the patch's source for a (more) recent chromium version?
(like the patches on https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/chromium_patches).
Best regards!
Nuno

[ShiftPlusOne]

Hi!
Is there any ongoing work to update the patch's source for a (more) recent chromium version?
(like the patches on https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/chromium_patches).
Best regards!
Nuno

We now have a proper source package for chromium. All the patches can be found here: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/chromium- ... an/patches

The most important one is https://github.com/RPi-Distro/chromium- ... 2.15.patch