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> Decode Like It's 1999 Here in the future, both Firefox and Chromium are still decoding MPEG in software, not hardware.[1] Chromium is actively working to fi
by mncharity 9y ago
> Decode Like It's 1999
Here in the future, both Firefox and Chromium are still decoding MPEG in software, not hardware.[1]
Chromium is actively working to fix that[2]. Mozilla, not so much.[3]
I've been hitting this lately, as webcams use MPEG at high resolutions (to fit USB 2 bandwidth). It's painful for AR.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera...
[2] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294 https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/53...
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=linux+hardware+decoding https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=linux+h...