Linux @lemmy.ml Leaflet @lemmy.world 2d ago

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

www.mozilla.org Firefox Beta 136.0beta, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

Firefox @lemmy.ml Leaflet @lemmy.world 2d ago

www.mozilla.org /en-US/firefox/136.0beta/releasenotes/

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I thought it always was lol
Fedora's repo build has had this turned on for literally years
- Fedora's repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.
  
  Unless you're on the KDE spin, which offers you the choice to install the codecs as a post-install step (iirc?).
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?
This is like the 6th time they've claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn't working correctly.
- 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.
  
  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!
I could have sworn they did this already a while back.
- I still can't play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.
  
  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?
its already working for me, and was for a long time.
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.
- Isn't that just because Twitch doesn't allow you to browse it using Firefox though?
  
  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.
What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.
- 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
  
  The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU
Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??
- Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
  
  mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.
- Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal
  
  kind of, mpv
- what is a video?
  
  Sent from my Linux.
- How else you watch stuff?
  
  mpv
- I do. When I watch Odysee.
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.
- Really? Turned them off a long time ago, never seen it changing (checked now too just in case)
  
  Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it's still off (also just checked)
  
  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.
- Have you tried Fennec?
- Use a fork of Firefox that doesn't do that. For example, Ironfox
  
  LibreWolf and FireFoxFocus.

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