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I think this is only true on Linux. On my Windows and macOS installs, hardware video decoding works fine.

• kuschku 10y ago
  Definitely. Mozilla removed hardware decoding on Linux in Firefox 3.6, and never added it back. The bugs on bugzilla are all marked "WONTFIX", and Linux seems to be an afterthought.
  • RussianCow 10y ago
    To be fair, I've looked through the Bugzilla threads about this (here are some for reference: [0][1]) and it seems to be a very difficult thing to implement. It's a bit beyond my reach, but my understanding is the tricky part is compositing the frames decoded by ffmpeg onto the document, and getting that all to work with all possible CSS transformations and such. So it's not just a matter of the Firefox devs neglecting Linux. [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729
    • kuschku 10y ago
      Except that Chrome manages to do this, as do all other linux browsers. And Mozilla, which explicitly writes Out of Scope - Linux testing On their QA pages in the wiki regarding this, well, doesn’t inspire confidence. I'm still using Firefox, still supporting Mozilla, but I'm disappointed nonetheless.