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>Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOS What does "native" mean in this context? Uses accelerated CPU instructions? Uses the codecs of the system ins

by qxnqd 7y ago

>Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOS What does "native" mean in this context? Uses accelerated CPU instructions? Uses the codecs of the system instead of something Firefox has built-in?

techntoke 7y ago
Now if they could focus on native video decoding in Linux, something that actually works with Chromium and leads me to believe that Chromium developers are more committed to open source.
- MrRadar 7y ago
  Mozilla are working on a "Wayland DMABuf" feature which will allow for separate processes to share GPU buffers on Linux[1]. For a long time that has been a blocker for hardware-accelerated video decoding as otherwise the data would need to be copied GPU->CPU->GPU which would negate a large portion of the gains. In the short term the work will only apply to WebGL rendering but it should open the door to hardware-accelerated video decoding in the near future. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572697 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572697
  - nominated1 7y ago
    I’m hoping Mozilla will move to libplacebo [1] when it’s stable. It’s seems the most promising. [1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo
ihuman 7y ago
Previously, "[f]or patent reasons, Firefox [did] not directly support MP3; instead, platform-native libraries [were] used to support MP3."[0] Now it uses ffvpx, which is their fork of ffmpeg. [1] [2] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Audio_codecs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/A... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx/README_MOZILLA https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx...
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by qxnqd 7y ago

>Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOS What does "native" mean in this context? Uses accelerated CPU instructions? Uses the codecs of the system instead of something Firefox has built-in?

techntoke 7y ago

Now if they could focus on native video decoding in Linux, something that actually works with Chromium and leads me to believe that Chromium developers are more committed to open source.

MrRadar 7y ago
Mozilla are working on a "Wayland DMABuf" feature which will allow for separate processes to share GPU buffers on Linux[1]. For a long time that has been a blocker for hardware-accelerated video decoding as otherwise the data would need to be copied GPU->CPU->GPU which would negate a large portion of the gains. In the short term the work will only apply to WebGL rendering but it should open the door to hardware-accelerated video decoding in the near future. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572697 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572697
- nominated1 7y ago
  I’m hoping Mozilla will move to libplacebo [1] when it’s stable. It’s seems the most promising. [1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo

ihuman 7y ago

Previously, "[f]or patent reasons, Firefox [did] not directly support MP3; instead, platform-native libraries [were] used to support MP3."[0] Now it uses ffvpx, which is their fork of ffmpeg. [1] [2] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Audio_codecs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/A... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx/README_MOZILLA https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx...

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