Hi riku_iki,
I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.
For comparison, I happen to be in Linux KDE Neon instead of Linux Mint Cinnamon 20 at this time (both are based on Ubuntu 20.04), using the Brave browser (Chromium-based). When playing videos in YouTube or elsewhere I rarely go above 25% temporarily and average less than that with or without video hardware acceleration enabled. I did find that enabling the browser Vulkan driver that my YouTube videos no longer worked and I do have the Linux Vulkan drivers installed, so I had to Disable the Vulkan option and they worked fine. I played YouTube videos at 1080 resolution in the Browser and fullscreen.
You might consider updating the Linux Kernel into the 5+ series and updating the Mesa video drivers into v20+ which will of course require restarting your computer. Non-LMDE Linux Mint users can use a PPA to easily update the Mesa drivers.
I do not know the best way to update the Mesa drivers for LMDE systems, but I found these links
How to Install The Latest Mesa Version On Debian 9 Stretch Linux - LinuxConfig.org
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux
debian - How to properly update Mesa drivers? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... sa-drivers
Phd21 wrote:
brave://gpu/
Before
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
OpenGL: Enabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
Phd21 wrote:
brave://gpu/
After going into "brave://flags/" searching for and enabling these.
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
OpenGL: Enabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
Phd21 wrote: inxi -Fxzd
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.2
Distro: KDE neon 20.04 5.20 base: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal
Machine: Type: Convertible System: Dell product: Inspiron 7573 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 01VKP1 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.16.0 date: 02/17/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.2 Wh condition: 36.2/42.0 Wh (86%) model: Samsung SDI DELL CYMGM82 status: Full
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2504.0002-battery model: ELAN2097:00 04F3:2504 charge: N/A status: N/A
Device-2: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M310 charge: Normal status: Discharging
Device-3: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech K520 charge: High status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800
Speed: 3393 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3393 2: 3370 3: 3365 4: 3382 5: 3395 6: 3257 7: 3344
8: 3367
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-52-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 56.86 GiB (23.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SK Hynix model: SC311 SATA 256GB size: 238.47 GiB
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: BD-RE BP50NB40 rev: 1.01 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
Features: speed: 153 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition: ID-1: / size: 77.84 GiB used: 56.79 GiB (73.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 48.0 C sodimm: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2575
Info: Processes: 347 Uptime: 2h 14m Memory: 7.52 GiB used: 4.28 GiB (56.9%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
Hope this helps ...
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- Brave Browser playing YouTube video with browser video hardware acceleration enabled (syspeek shows cpu info)
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- Brave Browser playing YouTube video #2 with browser video hardware acceleration enabled