Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux
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Have you tried Fennec?
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I do. When I watch Odysee.
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Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
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The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU
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Fedora's repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.
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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.
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Unless you're on the KDE spin, which offers you the choice to install the codecs as a post-install step (iirc?).
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How else you watch stuff?
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Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal
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Isn't that just because Twitch doesn't allow you to browse it using Firefox though?
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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.
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what is a video?
Sent from my Linux.
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Twitch is veeeeryyy slooowlyyy transitioning to AV1 for their livestreams, maybe that'll work better than h.264 whenever it's ready.
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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.enabledto true in about:configOK yeah that's something 99% of even Firefox users aren't going to know...
Bookmarking this to try when I'm back home! -
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? -
kind of, mpv
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mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.
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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.
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Of course I am, there's no way I can escape mkvs. It's not too bad if it doesn't have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue
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Fair enough. I've tried using twitch on my Fedora laptop with FF and I get blocked out by their browser message so I assumed that they were restricting access to chromium only.
