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

[fossphi@lemm.ee]

It's been working fine since a couple years ago on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration

[sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today]

Use a fork of Firefox that doesn't do that. For example, Ironfox

[darkcloud@lemmy.world]

LibreWolf and FireFoxFocus.

[iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee]

I guess he means whenever he reinstalls it. As IT, whenever I'm setting up something new on some server etc I have to go through those settings over an over. Not much different from the MS bullshit to try and reduce data collection.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

its already working for me

[laurelraven@lemmy.zip]

Zen browser is pretty interesting too

[kyouki@lemmy.world]

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?

[gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com]

Fedora's repo build has had this turned on for literally years

[dino@discuss.tchncs.de]

Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??

[mvmike@lemmy.ml]

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

[bytejunk@lemmy.world]

I still can't play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

[jim3692@discuss.online]

Have you tried Fennec?

[jim3692@discuss.online]

I do. When I watch Odysee.

[think1984@lemmy.ml]

Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?

[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