Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration

[MetalGearDaner]

This is so good news. Although I believe the new Vulkan Video API should be the standard to rule them all and efforts should be put into supporting and improving it (actually, NVIDIA's propietary driver is the best one supporting Vulkan Video API), this VA-API over NVDEC is a very nice to ensure a good experience for all users while the transition happens.

[tuxd3v]

Nvidia has encoding/decoding working well, but its proprietary..there are applications that take advantage of them..
AMD on the other hand needs to put more focus on the desktop media usage..

With now Cedrus, and Hantro drivers added to Linux,
I would think its possible to use vaapi to get acceleration on those arm SoCs, or they don't have at all acceleration?

I really hope that someday, we will have a unified way of doing things, working for all..

[shmerl]

Someone cleaning up Nvidia's mess while Nvidia sip their lock-in koolaid on the side. How typical.

[bug77]

I never understood why Nvidia felt like removing VDPAU. They could have just kept it as it was, perhaps in deprecated/legacy mode or something

[wertigon]

Hopefully this will make more people use VA-API instead of NVENC, but not holding my breath.

All proprietary consumer codecs must die.

[Alexmitter]

So much work just to work around nvidias shitty proprietary driver and its shitty custom interfaces.
If I had a shot for every driver bug workaround in desktops/compositors/display-servers and programs just to get it working on this shitty non compliant driver, I would have fully destroyed my liver and probably be dead from alcohol poisoning not even half way through.

Too bad.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration

For software like Mozilla Firefox that relies on the cross-vendor Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for hardware GPU-based video decoding and doesn't support NVIDIA's proprietary NVDEC interface for video decoding, there is an in-development VA-API implementation that works atop NVIDIA NVDEC...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VA-API-For-NVIDIA-NVDEC