Force Brave browser to use video decoding acceleration in Virtualbox running Debian 13 guest operating system

Display Screen settings:
– Video Memory 256 MB
– Graphics Controller: VMSVGA
– Extended Features: Enable 3D Acceleration should be checked

Brave launch command is:

/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --use-angle=gl --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu-memory-buffer-video-frames %U

Graphics Feature Status

  • Canvas: Hardware accelerated
  • Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
  • Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
  • OpenGL: Enabled
  • Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
  • Raw Draw: Disabled
  • Skia Graphite: Disabled
  • TreesInViz: Disabled
  • Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
  • Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Vulkan: Disabled
  • WebGL: Hardware accelerated but at reduced performance
  • WebGL2: Hardware accelerated but at reduced performance
  • WebGPU: Disabled
  • WebNN: Disabled

Libretro vs MAME romset mapping

Libretro Core NameMAME VersionNotes
MAME (current)LatestAlways requires the matching newest ROM set (e.g., 0.260)
MAME20160.174Good compatibility, supports newer games
MAME20150.160Slightly older, still good coverage
MAME20100.139Very stable, moderate compatibility
MAME2003-PlusBased on 0.78 + backportsEnhanced compatibility, best for Raspberry Pi / low power
MAME20030.78Very common, used in many older builds
MAME2003-Midway0.78 + Midway hacksSpecialized for Midway games (MK, NBA Jam)
MAME20000.37b5Very old, used for very weak hardware only

Fix WordPress update not completing

I tried recently to update WordPress to release 6.3 but it was constantly failing in my setup with nginx/php-fpm7.4.

Easiest way to fix it is to find this part of your site config in nginx:

        location ~ \.php(?:$|/) {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass php;
        }

and append it with fastcgi timeout settings:

        location ~ \.php(?:$|/) {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
                fastcgi_send_timeout 600;
                fastcgi_connect_timeout 600;
                fastcgi_pass php;
        }