I’m investigating hardware-accelerated video decode on Raspberry Pi 5 using Chromium (Wayland). The goal is smooth playback (no frame drops) and a Chromium-based UI. So far, Chromium appears to run software-only for video decode/compositing on Pi 5, despite extensive flag and VA-API attempts.
- Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5 (BCM2712)
- OS/Display: Wayland (Sway/Wlroots)
- Browser: Chromium (aarch64)
- GPU: V3D