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  • Chugworth
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2019
    • 391

    #11
    Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
    Well, fuck you Mozilla for offering hardware accelerated HEVC decoding just for Windows user!
    I've set my phone to record the 4K @ 60 FPS videos in HEVC (H.265) instead of AVC (H.264) and I'm not willing to go back from that or to convert my collection of personal videos.
    So screw you suggesting me that I should use the codec with the worse quality and bigger file size or to convert them, which of course will also mean worse quality!

    But hey, lets reward the CEO with a huge monthly salary...
    Chromium will play HEVC videos in Linux if you enable hardware video acceleration (link). That's a feature that I would like to see in Firefox also, but really just because of security cameras that use HEVC. I hope we start seeing security camera that can use AV1 instead.

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    • Anthony25
      Junior Member
      • Jan 2017
      • 3

      #12
      This version finally fixed the broken menus in fractional scaling: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1849109

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      • Schalefer
        Junior Member
        • Feb 2023
        • 18

        #13
        Originally posted by carguello2 View Post
        We already had HEVC decoding on Windows with supported hardware?
        While working it was disabled behind a flag.

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        • oibaf
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2008
          • 1223

          #14
          Originally posted by Jabberwocky View Post
          I'm I reading this correctly? 0 New features, 0 fixes for Linux Desktop in a major release.
          The full release notes will be published tomorrow, the current one is temporary for the beta version. There could be something else added to release notes tomorrow.

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          • oibaf
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2008
            • 1223

            #15
            Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
            Well, fuck you Mozilla for offering hardware accelerated HEVC decoding just for Windows user!
            It will come to other platforms as well:
            Last edited by oibaf; 06 January 2025, 01:50 PM.

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            • Gonk
              Phoronix Member
              • Apr 2021
              • 103

              #16
              Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
              Well, fuck you Mozilla for offering hardware accelerated HEVC decoding just for Windows user!
              FF on Linux uses VA-API, so if your hardware can provide decode support via VA-API, you should be good to go. For example, someone else mentioned AV1 decode: FF added that for Linux back in release 98.

              Except there may be licensing/patent nonsense in the way for any given codec.
              Last edited by Gonk; 06 January 2025, 02:07 PM. Reason: Thanks to oibaf for pointing out the discussion about the HEVC legal minefield.

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              • Schalefer
                Junior Member
                • Feb 2023
                • 18

                #17
                Originally posted by Gonk View Post

                FF on Linux uses VA-API, so if your hardware can provide decode support via VA-API, you should be good to go. For example, someone else mentioned AV1 decode: FF added that for Linux back in release 98.
                Alas no. FF does not provide hevc through VA-API. On Windows they can hide behind the OS providing a licensed playback method. On Linux they would become the enabling endpoint.

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                • schmidtbag
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 6618

                  #18
                  I don't really understand why people care that much about CPU decode. It takes a real crappy CPU to struggle at decoding 4K @ 60FPS.

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                  • qlum
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Mar 2013
                    • 114

                    #19
                    Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
                    I don't really understand why people care that much about CPU decode. It takes a real crappy CPU to struggle at decoding 4K @ 60FPS.
                    For starters, you may be on a laptop on battery, in which case the significant power increase is an issue, besides that plenty of less capable hardware out there that does drop frames on cpu.

                    That said I don't seem to encounter hevc on the web much.

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                    • johnp117
                      Phoronix Member
                      • Apr 2015
                      • 65

                      #20
                      Originally posted by Jabberwocky View Post
                      I'm I reading this correctly? 0 New features, 0 fixes for Linux Desktop in a major release.
                      You're not reading this correctly. The Developer Release Notes generally do not contain such information.

                      Until the official release notes are published (and even after that), Bugzilla provides a decent overview: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist...tus_firefox134 (Link only contains Linux-exclusive fixes/changes as per Bugzilla OS selection).

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