config/graphical-session/graphics-drivers/intel.md: Add troubleshooti…

…ng hardware video decoding on chromium based browsers
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@@ -46,3 +46,13 @@ For newer Intel chipsets, the [DDX](../xorg.md#ddx) drivers may interfere with
 correct operation. This is characterized by graphical acceleration not working
 and general graphical instability. If this is the case, try removing all
 `xf86-video-*` packages.
+
+On chromium based browsers, even with flags `--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder
+--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder`, and hardware acceleration
+reported to be enabled in `chrome://gpu` you might be able to see that the
+iGPU is not being selected/used with "VDA Error 4" on `chrome://media-internals`
+and `VpxVideoDecoder` is being selected instead. In that case, you have to build
+the `intel-media-driver` package with `nonfree` option from the
+[void-packages](https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages) source repository.
+Check the Media panel in the inspector while playing a video on the web
+to confirm that hardware decoding is working.