Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux

[roguebanana@lemmy.zip]

The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

Fedora's repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

VAAPI works on the integrated GPUs as well. There's a table of supported codecs here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables

Unfortunately they never bothered to get things integrated into Mesa and they have 2 different packages.

[merthyr1831@lemmy.ml]

Unless you're on the KDE spin, which offers you the choice to install the codecs as a post-install step (iirc?).

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

How else you watch stuff?

[coldwater@lemmy.ca]

Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal

[sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Isn't that just because Twitch doesn't allow you to browse it using Firefox though?

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

No. The only Firefox problem I have on Twitch is that any video above 720p begins to stutter. And 720p makes my laptop work like crazy. Same on YouTube when I encounter an old video with h.264. It has already been reported. I just have to wait until someone fixes it.

[x00z@lemmy.world]

what is a video?

Sent from my Linux.

[prinzkasper@feddit.org]

Twitch is veeeeryyy slooowlyyy transitioning to AV1 for their livestreams, maybe that'll work better than h.264 whenever it's ready.

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

Weird, it's been working for me for a while

That's strange, I'm almost certain my desktop's Firefox doesn't have this (AMD GPU) while my laptop's Firefox does (Nvidea GPU)

I just need to manually set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true in about:config

OK yeah that's something 99% of even Firefox users aren't going to know...
Bookmarking this to try when I'm back home!

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

They don't have mkv support by the way, that won't ever work in Firefox.
Are you sure you're not trying to play mkv files?

[dino@discuss.tchncs.de]

kind of, mpv

[dino@discuss.tchncs.de]

mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

It has been a while since I reinstalled Fedora KDE but I don't think it swaps mesa/ffmpeg/gstreamer to the freeworld version automatically, it just enables the repository for it.