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Hardware video decoding does not work in linux period. It doesn't matter whether you play an mp4 or vp9 video.
by xenithorb 9y ago
Hardware video decoding does not work in linux period. It doesn't matter whether you play an mp4 or vp9 video.
- shakna 9y agoNot sure what you mean by that. It's true that Chrome/Chromium don't support it. [0] Linux itself certainly supports it [1], and at least Mozilla have some progress towards it happening [2][3][4], if slow progress. However, we used to have hardware video decoding via gstreamer and VLC within Firefox as plugins, using VAAPI and NPAPI, so it's still possible to get working today. [0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440 [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera... [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726
- stuaxo 9y agoRight, this explains why my laptop has been running at a steady 85c the last few days, back to chrome for a bit then.