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Soon, People, Soon: [Wayland] Implement ffmpeg/VAAPI video playback https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

Soon, People, Soon: [Wayland] Implement ffmpeg/VAAPI video playback https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199

michaelmrose 7y ago
Is this feature only going to be implemented on Wayland?
- sydney6 7y ago
  I believe so. It appears that X11 is about to go into "maintenance mode". https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstation-31/ https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    This is bought to you by the people that think /etc/sudoers is best replaced with javascript rules and the solution to a mash up of javascript and compiled languages not freeing memory is to ignore the issue for 7 or 8 years then admit that the issue is unfixable and solve it by manually running the gc constantly and noting that this performs in practice way better than you would imagine for such a hacky crappy solution. In practice most users not using fedora are "apt" to see wayland not sooner than they upgrade to ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 11 or later and as users will naturally upgrade when they feel like it as opposed to release day one would expect the majority to transition between 2024 and 2028. Apps which don't work on X before this period would be even more niche than usual.
whalesalad 7y ago
I wish I could take Wayland for a spin but it feels like HL3 vaporware that only a select few individuals are actually capable of using. (I have an nVidia card)
- downtide 7y ago
  Using it with Nvidia/Gnome 3 on OpenSuse Leap 15.1. Screen jumped left repeatedly today, and I'm having trouble turning it off. Other than that seems to be okay...
- catalogia 7y ago
  "Select few" being anybody with an Intel or AMD GPU? That's actually quite a lot of people. Shit not working properly is one of the prices you choose to pay when you choose to purchase hardware with poor FOSS driver support.
  - whalesalad 7y ago
    My poor little Intel GPU can't do 4K and the last 2 AMD GFX cards I purchased had such brutally bad coil whine I decided to switch brands out of sheer frustration. The Nvidia card I have now is silent and works pretty well. One day I'll get to take Wayland for a test drive.
  - Zardoz84 7y ago
    I have a Polaris AMD GPU and Wayland does weird things with multi-screen setup, when X11 works nice.
dguaraglia 7y ago
About time! This has been the single thing keeping me from making the switch to Firefox for my personal profile. The Chromium-vaapi patch works well enough to justify being my default browser so far.

Soon, People, Soon: [Wayland] Implement ffmpeg/VAAPI video playback https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199

michaelmrose 7y ago

Is this feature only going to be implemented on Wayland?

sydney6 7y ago
I believe so. It appears that X11 is about to go into "maintenance mode". https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstation-31/ https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  This is bought to you by the people that think /etc/sudoers is best replaced with javascript rules and the solution to a mash up of javascript and compiled languages not freeing memory is to ignore the issue for 7 or 8 years then admit that the issue is unfixable and solve it by manually running the gc constantly and noting that this performs in practice way better than you would imagine for such a hacky crappy solution. In practice most users not using fedora are "apt" to see wayland not sooner than they upgrade to ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 11 or later and as users will naturally upgrade when they feel like it as opposed to release day one would expect the majority to transition between 2024 and 2028. Apps which don't work on X before this period would be even more niche than usual.

whalesalad 7y ago

I wish I could take Wayland for a spin but it feels like HL3 vaporware that only a select few individuals are actually capable of using. (I have an nVidia card)

downtide 7y ago
Using it with Nvidia/Gnome 3 on OpenSuse Leap 15.1. Screen jumped left repeatedly today, and I'm having trouble turning it off. Other than that seems to be okay...
catalogia 7y ago
"Select few" being anybody with an Intel or AMD GPU? That's actually quite a lot of people. Shit not working properly is one of the prices you choose to pay when you choose to purchase hardware with poor FOSS driver support.
- whalesalad 7y ago
  My poor little Intel GPU can't do 4K and the last 2 AMD GFX cards I purchased had such brutally bad coil whine I decided to switch brands out of sheer frustration. The Nvidia card I have now is silent and works pretty well. One day I'll get to take Wayland for a test drive.
- Zardoz84 7y ago
  I have a Polaris AMD GPU and Wayland does weird things with multi-screen setup, when X11 works nice.

dguaraglia 7y ago

About time! This has been the single thing keeping me from making the switch to Firefox for my personal profile. The Chromium-vaapi patch works well enough to justify being my default browser so far.