vdpau-va-driver-vp9 VS com.obsproject.Studio

I tried this https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9 but i didn't have chromium-vaapi also i tried all tricks from this thread https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-enable-hardware-video-acceleration-video-decode-in-google-chrome-brave-vivaldi-and-opera-browsers/51895

There is a fork that supports VP9, the original supports h264 at best.

That translation layer for vp9 support completely broke in chrome until very recently, and still doesn't work under Firefox to my knowledge. Additionally it's not in any official repo, requiring the user to compile it themselves. This is a horrible user experience and is simply unacceptable.

Built and installed this driver as well as all of the tools to build it: https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9

- https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-ubuntu-build/issues/102 - https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9/issues/13

The "see details" link takes you to: https://github.com/flathub/com.obsproject.Studio/graphs/contributors/

With official packages, I have even more questions. Example: OBS Studio. The publisher link points to this repo, which is currently archived, with the message "This repository is no longer used to build OBS. Issues should be reported at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio". After some digging, I found they're using Github Actions to automatically publish to Flathub on release, which is fine (and pretty cool), but I would still prefer that Flathub provide some kind of records on their end. What assurances do I have that the package installed on my machine from Flathub is the one that was built by upstream? Maybe they have something and I'm not looking in the right place.

Big news for Linux users: We now officially ship OBS Studio via Flatpak (in addition to the PPA), greatly expanding support for more distros and providing a much more consistent experience, no matter your environment. Download it from Flathub here - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.obsproject.Studio

OBS (stream/rec): Flatpak, Steam(?)

There is obs-studio package in Debian, try using that. Alternatively, you could install it as a Flatpak via Flathub (there were also recent news of OBS Project is making it their official Linux package instead of Ubuntu PPA).

I'm not the only one. The issue tracker is full of people having serious issues like, y'know "Doesn't work at all" and "No fonts," and "Crashes on Alt-Tab," etc.