No hardware video decode on Ubuntu 22.04


Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. No video hardware decoder launching browser with these settings
--use-gl=desktop --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform

Expected result:
Hardware video decode

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Version 1.43.58 Chromium: 104.0.5112.81 (Build officiel) beta (64 bits)

Additional Information:

Graphics Feature Status


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] [10de:1f06] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

nvidia/515.65.01, 5.15.0-43-generic, x86_64: installed

  • Canvas: Hardware accelerated
  • Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
  • Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
  • Compositing: Hardware accelerated
  • Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
  • OpenGL: Enabled
  • Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
  • Raw Draw: Enabled
  • Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
  • Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
  • Vulkan: Enabled
  • WebGL: Hardware accelerated
  • WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
  • WebGPU: Disabled

Tagging @JimB1 who may be able to help.

I have no idea. Just posting links to information that may be related to your issue and may help you troubleshoot. Please ignore if I am not even on the field. :slightly_smiling_face:

Other thoughts of things you might test.

  1. Does enabling/disabling hardware acceleration in brave://settings/system change anything?
  2. Are there any brave://flags that need to be changed?
  3. Is it working as expected in other Chromium based browsers?

Might provide insight?

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