In -current, chromium (and derivatives) now have VA-API support

Contributed by rueda on 2025-10-18 from the smooth-and-cool dept.

Following a discussion on ports@, Robert Nagy (robert@) committed VA-API [hardware-assisted video - see previous report] support to the chromium, iridium, and ungoogled-chromium ports.

Note that:

Updated (binary) packages for amd64 are just starting to become available.
Intel GPUs requires ports graphics/intel-media-driver [and/]or graphics/intel-vaapi-driver.
~~Firefox already has VA-API support.~~

Update:
Now disabled again. Plus, we were wrong about Firefox. Thanks for the comments!

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By Anonymous Coward (anonymouse) on 2025-10-20 12:34

Now disabled again due to build issues.

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By Landry Breuil (landry) on 2025-10-20 12:36

Fwiw, i dunno who imagined this, but firefox doesn't have VA-API support in our port. Requires too much wrangling with unveil/pledge. Someone (tm) can have a better look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911635 for details.

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