Great. Now vulkan support! 😁
Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default
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PS sadly the mozilla devs have been joined by the VLC/ffmpeg/distro maintainer (deb/ubuntu?) people who effectively threw HW video decoding out from the most popular player for I guess millions of their users. Tells you all you need to know about the MUH-MUH FREE DESKTOP - that is you're entirely on your own mate.Last edited by mos87; 05 February 2025, 05:19 AM.
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I think I enabled it manually, but it is painful to see.
I mean, how long do we have video acceleration in general? Since the 486 days with the first MPEG1 decoder cards? (yeah, I know, that is the early hardware implementation)
Later on, we had MEPG2 acceleration on all sorts of GPUs, even onboard solutions. And Linux got VDPAU as some sort of common API for it, and all the others. Some died, some needed time to mature, but currently VAAPI seems to be a fairly good thing for many years.
And x264 is in GPU-complexes for more than 10 years now. Everything else would be a waste of power.
I do notice the difference of x264 and vp9/vp8 (the latter which are not accelerated on older chipsets, as they were too new at that time) and it is more than noticeable. Full CPU load, stuttering audio and video, frame-drops, the CPU boiling vs. a little twitching in my CPU-load-meter and mild power consumption when playing x264.
But everything that can be accelerated (correctly) via some ASIC should be.
So better late than never, but it still hurts that it took that long.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by citral View PostThis doesn't make any sense. video acceleration is enabled since firefox-101.0.1-4, so a long while ago.
Of course one could enable it manually much earlier, which I had done for a while, but there were problems like zombies, that remained after playing videos, who only died after quitting Firefox.
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Originally posted by PeeWee View PostMaybe on non-AMD hardware, read the title again. ;-)
Of course one could enable it manually much earlier, which I had done for a while, but there were problems like zombies, that remained after playing videos, who only died after quitting Firefox.
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
It has worked just fine. Apparently I've used hw acceleration on rx 460, 550, and 5500 xt for several years now (since ff 101).
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