Raspberry Pi 5 missing video decode hardware acceleration in chromium

[otte]

Greetings,

 

I installed Armbian Noble with gnome desktop, specifically "Armbian_26.2.1_Rpi4b_noble_current_6.18.9_gnome_desktop.img" on a Raspberry Pi 5. Updated system and installed chrome since I need to play some media from inside chromium browser. However, I checked to see that hardware accelerated video decode is not actually supported within Armbian currently.

Previously I had official Raspberry Pi OS installed when I first had a look at the device and there it was enabled. It's kind of a minor thing but I've used different hardware with Armbian before and it would make things a lot easier for me if I can keep using Armbian on Raspberry Pi 5 as well.

Only hint I've found on forum so far was a post from 2024 but it seemed to affect hardware acceleration in system overall and was a known issue, so I believe this is a new topic.

Other thing I still tried was to go with a rolling release instead of Standard support, in this case "Armbian_26.2.0-trunk.679_Rpi4b_noble_current_6.18.20_gnome_desktop.img" but same issue.

 

Any ideas on what can be done here, perhaps a setting or package I might have missed?

[geoW]

How to Change hardware configuration?

Use /boot/firmware/config.txt to configure hardware settings. This is the official Raspberry Pi method.

From https://www.armbian.com/rpi4b/

I assume same for your gpu settings.