[webkit-gtk] Hardware acceleration on raspberry pi 4 using buildroot.

[C Larbi]

Thanks for your suggestions Andrea.
I followed up on your WPE comment and found out that there is a build
switch called "-DUSE_WPE_RENDERER" to let webkitgtk use the WPE renderer.

In my buildroot configuration file, this switch is off, but further reading
revealed that upstream recommends the use of this option.

I am away from my build system currently, but will give it a try (turn on
wpe renderer switch) when i get back

Regards
Cerezo

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 8:44 AM Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure if relevant, or a proper answer, 'cause I think there are no
> bindings for Gtk (or maybe there are?) but the fastest browser for the Pi
> (2, 3, 4) is WPEWebKit, which is HW accelerated.
> To date, I've never managed to get nearly similar performance via
> WebKit2-GTK: not CSS, not Canvas, even less WebGL, video are slow.
>
> Maybe you can bootstrap COG and WPE a part? For all those cases I've
> mentioned, it does an excellent job (30fps+ stable on full screen WebGL,
> and excellent video playback + smooth CSS animations).
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:08 AM C Larbi <pkl2000us at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am working on an information display screen using webkitgtk.
>>
>> The system was put together using buildroot.
>>
>> The display screen uses some javacript to manipulate the DOM to create
>> some effects.
>>
>> So far everthing seems to be working perfectly except that it seems
>> rendering the effects seem to be slow.
>>
>> Some of these effects are to give smooth transitions, but on my pi 4,
>> these transitions are seen as visible STEPS instead of being smooth.
>>
>> I am no expert in GPUs but it seems the gpu is not being utilized in
>> rendering.
>>
>> When i set the environment variable "WEBKIT_FORCE_COMPOSITING_MODE" to 1,
>> the whole screen gets garbled.
>>
>> I will appreciate any pointers in getting this fixed
>>
>> Below are some details of my system:
>>
>> webkitgtk version = 2.30.2
>> Mesa3d version = 20.2.2
>> Opengl es and opengl egl are enabled
>> Using wayland compositor (weston)
>> Using the vc4-fkms-v3d on pi 4
>>
>> Regards
>> Cerezo
>>
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