Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs

With the upcoming Firefox 75 there is VA-API GPU-based video acceleration working on Wayland. While this built off FFmpeg, the initial code was limited to supporting H.264 while for Firefox 76 that is being extended...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-76-VA-API-Formats

[shmerl]

We need VAAPI for WebRTC now.

[SpyroRyder]

I wonder if they'll do what Google are doing with chrome and temporarily suspend their schedule while this pandemic is happening?

[Xaero_Vincent]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, Wayland isn't ready by a long shot.

[shmerl]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, Wayland isn't ready by a long shot.

If you want to use Wayland, better to ditch Nvidia for good.

[smitty3268]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, Wayland isn't ready by a long shot.

Nowhere is X mentioned in the article, and if you go to the linked bug it's titled "[Wayland] Enable VA-API for all formats, r=jya"

So no. X11 is not supported.

There's this bug you can follow if you want, for the X11 support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619523

Doesn't seem like anyone is currently working on it. Maybe you can convince NVidia to contribute code for it, since their drivers seem to need it.

[TemplarGR]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, Wayland isn't ready by a long shot.

Wayland is definitely ready. Nvidia is not. Buy more Linux-compatible hardware next time. Or write the X11 support yourself.

[darkbasic]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, **Nvidia** isn't ready by a long shot.

Fixed for you.

[Guest]

So does this include X11 support too? As an Nvidia user, Wayland isn't ready by a long shot.

I don't think so. I don't think this solution will be as good as real hardware gpu decoding. Some comparisons are needed (wayland/x11, real hw decoding/fake hw decoding).

[treba]

I don't think so. I don't think this solution will be as good as real hardware gpu decoding. Some comparisons are needed (wayland/x11, real hw decoding/fake hw decoding).

What do you mean with fake hw decoding? The article is about *real* hardware decoding - as long as your hardware / driver offers it via VAAPI.