Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration

[Britoid]

About t(h)rolling...
Is this solution the same that vlc, mplayer, mpv, xine, etc. use? Using different words, does Firefox/Chromium use real hardware acceleration (= GPU hardware) for decoding?

Partially the same if they're using vaapi, but Firefox is taking it an extra step and using dmabuf which doesn't work under X and avoids copying around pixels. This would also have the advantage of letting you eventually use hardware planes dedicated for video.

[boxie]

About t(h)rolling...
Is this solution the same that vlc, mplayer, mpv, xine, etc. use? Using different words, does Firefox/Chromium use real hardware acceleration (= GPU hardware) for decoding?

from what I remember, it uses VA-API - which uses whatever backend you have

[timrichardson]

It's only H264? That's a shame, but it's still close to seismic news. When did Firefox officially support Wayland?

[Guest]

It would be interesting to see some benchmark between the Firefox/Chromium solution and the real hardware decoding (vlc, mplayer, mpv, etc.).

[ernstp]

Tested quickly on Intel with Ubuntu 18.04 + updated Mesa. Didn't work, guess there are some libs that are too old.

[GrayShade]

It's only H264? That's a shame, but it's still close to seismic news.

VP9 is next: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258

When did Firefox officially support Wayland?

It doesn't.

[ernstp]

It would be interesting to see some benchmark between the Firefox/Chromium solution and the real hardware decoding (vlc, mplayer, mpv, etc.).

If it uses ffmpeg and dma-buf it's pretty real, no..?

[Britoid]

Tested quickly on Intel with Ubuntu 18.04 + updated Mesa. Didn't work, guess there are some libs that are too old.

That's going to be far too old for anything.

[Britoid]

VP9 is next: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258



It doesn't.

Firefox doesn't really "support Linux" either. Linux support is being maintained by Red Hat.

[brent]

This is great, but Wayland support in Firefox is still pretty buggy, and recently suffered from regressions such as this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615098

That makes Firefox pretty much unusable at the moment.