Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux
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its already working for me
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Zen browser is pretty interesting too
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Could be wrong, but it's not about working but rather that it is now enabled by default.
Which may haven't been the case, I suppose?
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Fedora's repo build has had this turned on for literally years
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Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??
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Aren't those browser settings and not user settings? I see your point and maybe those should be user settings, but saying that "Firefox on android keeps turning it’s Data Collection options on" is misleading
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I still can't play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.
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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.
