Enable Hardware Acceleration for Flash on Intel Graphics

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Is there any way to improve the Adobe flash player hardware acceleration in Ubuntu, with an Intel graphics card?

Best Answer

By using libvdpau-va-gl is a VDPAU driver we can accelerate the flash player in terms of increasing its decoding speed.

To install it and configure the instruction are here . Open your terminal and type as To install the latest Intel Drivers( if already installed , no need) 

sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver

Then install libvdpau-va-gl

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libvdpau-va-gl1

instruct the adobe flash for hardware acceleration 

sudo mkdir -p /etc/adobe
echo "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" | sudo tee /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
echo "OverrideGPUValidation=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

suggest your browser for acceleration 

VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl firefox

Note: chrome was not up to this.

That's it. your flash will be fast more than usual.

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