Geforce Now Electron for linux

Electron based Geforce Now application, inspired by geforcenow-electron.

Requirement

Please follow How To Enable Hardware Accelerated Video Decode to install required dependencies in linux

Basically you will have to install follow dependencies, most of them should be already installed by the OS.

For Intel Gen 7 and earlier hardware

sudo apt install i965-va-driver-shaders libva-drm2 libva-x11-2

For Intel Gen 8+ hardware

sudo apt install intel-media-va-driver-non-free libva-drm2 libva-x11-2

For Nouveau and AMD drivers

sudo apt install mesa-va-drivers libva-drm2 libva-x11-2

Also install additional drivers

sudo apt install libva-glx2 libva-x11-2 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra libgl1-mesa-glx

Features

added required chromium flags for Hardware video decoder

FAQ

Why only linux ?

Because browser hardware video decoder (ex: play in 4k mode) doesn't work well on Linux, in other OS, we can just play directement in a chromium based browsers.

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