Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux : linux

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 67 points 2 weeks ago

I thought it always was lol

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago

This is like the 6th time they've claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn't working correctly.

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Weird, it's been working for me for a while. I just need to manually set "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" to true in about:config.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 weeks ago

Weird, it's been working for me for a while

That's strange, I'm almost certain my desktop's Firefox doesn't have this (AMD GPU) while my laptop's Firefox does (Nvidea GPU)

I just need to manually set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true in about:config

OK yeah that's something 99% of even Firefox users aren't going to know... Bookmarking this to try when I'm back home!

[-] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I could have sworn they did this already a while back.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I still can't play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago

They don't have mkv support by the way, that won't ever work in Firefox. Are you sure you're not trying to play mkv files?

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Of course I am, there's no way I can escape mkvs. It's not too bad if it doesn't have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue 😭

[-] Kyouki@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Could be wrong, but it's not about working but rather that it is now enabled by default.

Which may haven't been the case, I suppose?

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fedora's repo build has had this turned on for literally years

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fedora's repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Unless you're on the KDE spin, which offers you the choice to install the codecs as a post-install step (iirc?).

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 2 weeks ago

It has been a while since I reinstalled Fedora KDE but I don't think it swaps mesa/ffmpeg/gstreamer to the freeworld version automatically, it just enables the repository for it.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'd rather have software decode of h.264 on par with Chromium. As it is I can't watch Twitch on my laptop in Firefox.

[-] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't that just because Twitch doesn't allow you to browse it using Firefox though?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

No. The only Firefox problem I have on Twitch is that any video above 720p begins to stutter. And 720p makes my laptop work like crazy. Same on YouTube when I encounter an old video with h.264. It has already been reported. I just have to wait until someone fixes it.

[-] PrinzKasper@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Twitch is veeeeryyy slooowlyyy transitioning to AV1 for their livestreams, maybe that'll work better than h.264 whenever it's ready.

[-] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough. I've tried using twitch on my Fedora laptop with FF and I get blocked out by their browser message so I assumed that they were restricting access to chromium only.

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's been working fine since a couple years ago on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 2 weeks ago

VAAPI works on the integrated GPUs as well. There's a table of supported codecs here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables

Unfortunately they never bothered to get things integrated into Mesa and they have 2 different packages.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

its already working for me, and was for a long time.

[+] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Firefox on android keeps turning it's "Data Collection" options on. I'm no longer able to trust it. The company is starting to show signs of rot.

[-] mvmike@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago

Really? Turned them off a long time ago, never seen it changing (checked now too just in case)

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it's still off (also just checked)

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess he means whenever he reinstalls it. As IT, whenever I'm setting up something new on some server etc I have to go through those settings over an over. Not much different from the MS bullshit to try and reduce data collection.

[-] mvmike@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Aren't those browser settings and not user settings? I see your point and maybe those should be user settings, but saying that "Firefox on android keeps turning it’s Data Collection options on" is misleading

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

Have you tried Fennec?

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Use a fork of Firefox that doesn't do that. For example, Ironfox

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

LibreWolf and FireFoxFocus.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Zen browser is pretty interesting too

[+] dino@discuss.tchncs.de -31 points 2 weeks ago

Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??

[-] think1984@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?

[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal

[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

kind of, mpv

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

what is a video?

Sent from my Linux.

[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

How else you watch stuff?

[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

mpv

[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just for local files or is there a way to use like Netflix through it?

[-] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

mpv can play youtube and many other videos from video hosting services through yt-dlp but it can't play DRM content like Netflix or Spotify MPV also can play video from TTY so you don't need graphical interface like xorg or wayland to play videos

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago

I do. When I watch Odysee.

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