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I've been trying to follow tutorials on enabling hardware accelerated video decoding for my Raspberry Pi 3b+, such as this one:

https://lemariva.com/blog/2020/08/raspberry-pi-4-video-acceleration-decode-chromium

They all seem to want me to select a GL Driver called "Fake KMS", but even after installing the various packages mentioned, it's not listed for me.

I'm using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, with updates installed.

  • cat /proc/device-tree/soc/firmwarekms@7e600000/status returns disabled
  • cat /proc/device-tree/soc/v3d@7ec00000/status returns okay
  • chrome://gpu shows Video Decode: Software only: Hardware acceleration disbled

How can I make this option avaiable, or otherwise do what is needed to enable GPU video decoding in chromium?

Image of raspi-config with Fake KMS missing as an option

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  • I assume that link points to instructions for older release of Pi OS - if you have the latest (bullseye) release - then you should have dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d in your config.txt
    – Bravo
    Nov 14, 2021 at 8:54
  • @Bravo I did this and restarted, and it doesn't seem to have affected anything. Nov 14, 2021 at 10:25
  • So, which version of Raspberry Pi OS do you have installed?
    – Bravo
    Nov 14, 2021 at 11:35
  • @Bravo 11 (bullseye) Nov 14, 2021 at 12:10
  • oh, and you're reading a video acceleration page for pi4 but you don't have a pi4
    – Bravo
    Nov 15, 2021 at 1:27

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