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Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration
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Originally posted by piotrj3 View Postthis is one of the biggest gatekeepers from making linux a mainstream desktop.
I probably should try out this wrapper, but I hate NVDEC putting the GPU into energy wasting CUDA pstate 2. And I also hate booting Linux with Nvidia in general...
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Originally posted by Alexmitter View PostSo 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.
So much work *checks what you need to do to make Firefox/Chromium based browsers work with hardware acceleration on AMD and Intel and compares that to additional work that Nvidia needs* ... oh gosh so basicly 5 steps tutorial becomes 7 steps! Soooo much tiring work for Nvidia users here. I am sooo damn tired.
Seriously, the biggest issue is that neither Firefox, neither Chromium supports Vaapi (or any other) decoding on linux by default, only with specially crafted settings you mostly set yourself and this is one of the biggest gatekeepers from making linux a mainstream desktop.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostI never understood why Nvidia felt like removing VDPAU. They could have just kept it as it was, perhaps in deprecated/legacy mode or something
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I'd be happy if VA-API just worked reliably out of the box on Intel in Firefox.
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Originally posted by Alexmitter View PostSo 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.
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Originally posted by wertigon View PostHopefully this will make more people use VA-API instead of NVENC, but not holding my breath.
All proprietary consumer codecs must die.
Originally posted by bug77 View PostI never understood why Nvidia felt like removing VDPAU. They could have just kept it as it was, perhaps in deprecated/legacy mode or something
VA-API is more universal across both X11 and wayland, but they just never got into that and did - once again - their own thing.
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