

NOTE: Update system ffmpeg library might cause conflict to other packages in your system. Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continueįor Ubuntu 20.04 and earlier, the FFmpeg PPA is also required as dependency: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 When it opens, run command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/chromium Add the PPAįirstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. Ubuntu 21.10 is somehow not supported at the moment. And, the PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 21.04 so far. Though, there’s now a trustworthy third-party PPA maintains the latest Chromium package. Personally, I prefer the package from Linux Mint a bit more. But at least this is what worked for me.Install Chromium package from Linux Mint Option 2: Install Chromium via third-party Ubuntu PPA: Please note that my linux skills are not that great, take you usual precautions. Update: for youtube sound playback via HDMI (default Ubuntu 20.10 plays through the 3.5mm jack). But it also still shows the stderr-output errors. I also did the RealVNC mixed armhf/arm64 install from the deb packages previously). Update: you might better use the install via the raspi deb packages from the post of below! It works fine for me - 720p playback with no dropped frames and approx 40% CPU (even though e.g. There are still some stderr-out errors produced by this Chromium, which would be nice if we can fix/remove these (will se if I can do this later). with all the 7 downloaded packagesįor me this now has a fast Chromium startup, apparently this Chromium is now fully hardware-accelerated, and has a nice youtube playback. Sudo snap remove chromium # get rid of the snap Chromium + restarting seem to result in chromium even showing a bit of hardware-acceleration in about://gpu Sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras ffmpeg # for media playback Sudo snap install core # to remove snap-installed chromium's canberra* errors Here is what worked for me to get rid of the errors and to accelerate youtube playback performance a bit: Chromium-snap 1st startup is abysmally slow (took approx. And Chromium-snap also produces errors (you can also see this with starting chromium via a terminal), and it does not do any hardware-acceleration. Chromium is per default installed via snap (even a sudo apt install chromium only installs a snap shim). Firefox comes preinstalled, but is slow and produces errors on youtube playback (you can see them by starting firefrox from a terminal).
