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??
Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
I do. When I watch Odysee.
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?
its already working for me, and was for a long time.
I thought it always was lol
This is like the 6th time they've claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn't working correctly.
Weird, it's been working for me for a while. I just need to manually set "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" to true in about:config.
I could have sworn they did this already a while back.
What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.
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
The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU
I'd rather have software decode of h.264 on par with Chromium. As it is I can't watch Twitch on my laptop in Firefox.