Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video

[Martyn]

This might be the long-term solution for Nvidia video acceleration on Firefox/Chromium? Given they'll probably take a decade to support Vulkan video themselves ╮⁠(⁠＾⁠▽⁠＾⁠)⁠╭

I sure hope so because it's one of the few major problems NVIDIA users have left for general desktop use.

[dragon321]

Yes, nvidia has vulkan video, I meant Firefox adding vk video will take forever.
Vaapi drivers for Nvidia aren't that good afaik (I have hybrid, I use amdgpu for browsers anyway) I mean as a long term solution etc.

My mistake then, sorry.

[Quackdoc]

I really hope hasvk implements vulkan video, intel-vaapi-driver is broken now, unusable in chrome, unusable in wayland. these devices are effectively nuttered now. hasvk + zink could bring these back to usable

[LinAGKar]

The link at the bottom of the article is dead

Anyway, is this gonna be limited to there formats officially supported by Vulkan, or could they make some Mesa-specific extensions to support more formats?

[MrCooper]

How does that work with energy-saving measures? AFAIK, the video part of the chip is very often independent of the 3D part. So, you can watch a full-screen video without enabling the 3D part of a GPU. Can Vulkan work in that way?

Sure.

[Quackdoc]

The link at the bottom of the article is dead

Anyway, is this gonna be limited to there formats officially supported by Vulkan, or could they make some Mesa-specific extensions to support more formats?

it's possible they could extend it, but what codecs are you thinking about that would be useful here?