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Pancho   wrote:
>I'm a bit confused by the other responses. I tested Raspbian desktop on
>my Pi4 4GB just over a year ago and it wasn't utilising hardware
>graphics acceleration in the Chrome ("Chromium"?) browser. HD video,
>fullscreen, youtube, was unwatchable in Chrome. None of the other
>browsers seemed better, I think Firefox was "experimental".
>
>Sure, you could set it up to play video with something like KODI that
>does use x264 hardware acceleration (maybe even x265), but the default
>youtube browser experience was unwatchable.

There's a Kodi add-on for YouTube that works like a champ.  A small number
of older videos won't play (not transcoded to H.264, perhaps?), but the vast
majority play flawlessly, full-screen.  I ran it under LibreELEC for a long
time, switched to Raspbian recently to try to get LBRY working, and am
currently working on getting 64-bit Gentoo running again. (That'll enable
newer versions of Kodi, and can easily be cross-compiled on more powerful
hardware...and it might also have better support for windowed video.)

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