How to Enable Hardware Acceleration, Video Decode & Rasterization in Chromium Based Browsers – Linux

In this video I cover how to enable hardware acceleration, video decode and rasterization when using Chromium based browsers on Linux.

To check the status of hardware acceleration, open a browser and type chrome://gpu into the address bar.

If you see anything listed as Software only then hardware acceleration is not enabled, and instead any video decoding will be using your CPU, not GPU.

So, to enable support for hardware decoding, open the browser and type chrome://flags in the address bar.

First, search for “hardware” and enable the “Hardware-accelerated video decode” flag and restart the browser.

On the same page, you can also enable GPU rasterization which can help to improve the quality of images and font rendering.

So this time, search for “GPU”, enable the toggle, and restart the browser.

Now when you go to chrome://gpu, all options listed except for Vulkan, should now have Hardware accelerated highlighted in green.

This means that all supported video rendering or decoding will now be handled by your GPU.

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