Hello,

I found an article on undeadly.org speaking about vaapi enabled in chromium.
There are mentioned some extra ports that need or not to be installed
for INTEL gpu: graphics/intel-media-driver [and/]or
graphics/intel-vaapi-driver.

Looking at openports.pl, i found those ports like this:

intel-media-driver-25.2.6 - VAAPI driver for Intel HD 5000 (Gen8) or newer
intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1p2 - VAAPI legacy driver for Intel GMA 4500 to UHD 630

My gpu is cpu integrated, see below:

cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3192.56 MHz, 06-5e-03,
patch 000000d6

inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics 530" rev 0x06
drm0 at inteldrm0
inteldrm0: msi, SKYLAKE, gen 9

So it looks i need to install the legacy vaapi package.
Other than this, do i need to configure something else in chromium to
enable vaapi support?
Does other packages, like ffmpeg benefit from this vaapi legacy
package from ports one it is installed?

Thank you.

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