New releases via unportable (for now)

[Eloston]

What

unportable is a lightweight wrapper over ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux with a few key differences:

• Enabled support for Wayland with Pipewire support in WebRTC (for screensharing)
• Enabled VA-API support (as of Chromium 96.0.4664.93, it is supported on Wayland and X11)
• Builds on Debian 11 (bullseye) with node-typescript and LLVM 13 backported from testing/sid.
  • node-typescript can be directly installed from testing/sid as of 2021-10-29
  • LLVM 13 can be rebuilt on Debian bullseye with no modifications, or you can use builds from apt.llvm.org
• Built with ffmpeg_branding set to ChromeOS

Why

While @braewoods is sorting out issues (notably #247) with the new unified branch, I will be maintaining the unportable branch for myself until I am able to switch over to unified.

Where/When

Code is now available on the unportable branch. I will be updating this issue when new code is ready. I won't be making tags because it would get caught in the CI system and I haven't tested whether my code will go through the CI system successfully.

Instead, I will be making personal builds over at https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases, but they're built with Intel Skylake-compatible CPU instructions (-march=skylake) (UPDATE 2021-12-15: The latest Chromium 96 builds use corei7-avx, so it supports pre-Skylake architectures, maybe as early as Sandy Bridge). I do not intend to automate OBS builds, as I do not want to interfere with @braewoods's work.

Feedback

Please post questions/problems in new issues. This is just an announcement post.

[Eloston]

95.0.4638.69-1.unportable1: 94a098d

[Eloston]

96.0.4664.45-1.unportable1: bf38674

[Eloston]

96.0.4664.93-1.unportable1: 8c4962d

Notable changes:

1. VA-API is now supported on Wayland (X11 is still supported too)
2. Changed ffmpeg_branding to ChromeOS to support more uncommon containers and formats.

[Eloston]

96.0.4664.110-1.unportable1: 7a0e649

[Eloston]

97.0.4692.71-1.unportable1: 9f7b06d

[Eloston]

97.0.4692.99-1.unportable1: 3251690

[Eloston]

98.0.4758.80-1.unportable1: a6eb01f

NOTE: Starting with this version, VA-API requires the command-line flag --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder (NOTE: If you already have --disable-features, for feature XYZ, then you need to append UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder with a comma, e.g. --disable-features=XYZ,UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder)

[Eloston]

98.0.4758.102-1.unportable1: 6ebf5d4