[Soli]

Yeah I tried the vdpau wrapper, deactivated the gpu whitelist in chrome. I also managed to confirm gpu accel. in flash by deactivating pepper flash and overriding the white list in adobe flash. I think flash worked a little better, but not anywhere stable without dropping frames. (With the *15 card). But this was with a pretty bloated linux mint, i'll have another go with Kodibuntu. As for html5 , i dont think there was any difference. Does Chrome for Linux even support VDPAU?

Btw, I always believed the crystal hd kernel code was useless, thats it was reccomended that you build the drivers from git yourself. And I'm not really disagreeing with you at anything at all. My only question is: will it work with crystal hd in Chrome or not? I guess I'll have to find that out for myself.

You will need to find, port and get kernel drivers and userspace compiled ... was no fun the last time.

Just found out the latest Chrome already has disabled npapi plugins, they even removed the override option, so no more adobe flash in chrome. I can't be bothered to install Firefox to just get this going, I am terrified to f*** up my really smooth Kodibuntu install. To be honest, I don't really care that much for flash acceleration, but it would be nice to have html5 acceleration. A review on amazon says it's possible, but I kinda doubt that.

I just got a second HP Chromebox, so I might just clone my existing Kodibuntu and try it after all, though. Or not, we'll see