Building a Hardware-Accelerated 16-Camera RTSP Wall in Electron
Deliver desktop CCTV monitoring applications with zero CPU bottleneck using WebCodecs and Chromium GPU acceleration.
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#1Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Electron
Pass Chromium GPU flags in Electron main process:
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('enable-accelerated-video-decode');
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('enable-gpu-rasterization');
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('ignore-gpu-blocklist');
function createWindow() {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 1920,
height: 1080,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true,
contextIsolation: false
}
});
win.loadURL('http://localhost:3000');
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