Netflix, state of the art?

[hthiemann]

Currently hw accelaration is still a missing feature, but I thought I could share my current version with you - maybe someone has an idea how to fix this

Please find my code and a detailled description here: https://github.com/HenningThiemann/docker-chromium-armhf


Essentially, you need to

• enable XHost Forwarding to allow the docker container to spin up a new XFrame Window (xhost +local:docker)
  
• create a new docker volume to persist your chromium settings (docker volume create chromium_home)
  
• spin up the container with the following command
  docker run --rm --privileged \ -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \ -v chromium_home:/home \ -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \ -v /dev:/dev -v /run:/run \ -v /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id \ --ipc=host \ hthiemann/docker-chromium-armhf
  

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• Tested with netflix and spotify, both working 

Awesome work, have you set the required flags? - for starters un-blacklist the GPU?. Then see if you get acceleration (easily checked under chrome://gpu).

For reference, in chrome://flags look for:

Code:

#ignore-gpu-blacklist

#enable-gpu-rasterization

I've copied all flags from the mrfixit debian repo and see they are available in chromium.

I have added the "mesa-utils" and "mesa-utils-extra" packages inside the container, in theory "HW acceleration" should be available now (as displayed inside chromium) - but I doubt it really is as the performance is about on the same level as before.