Run customized mpv on ChromeOS with hardware acceleration

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.

  • b000rg@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • arya@lemmy.mlOP
      14·
      4 days ago

      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.