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> Hardware video acceleration All video players on X11 have VDPAU support since ages. This is a Firefox specific problem which could be solved more easy on X11
by sprash 7y ago
> Hardware video acceleration
All video players on X11 have VDPAU support since ages. This is a Firefox specific problem which could be solved more easy on X11.
> The fact that this will be officially supported by a major browser vendor on Wayland first should tell you something.
It just tells me that Mozilla/Firefox really doesn't care about Linux because it took them 14 years since VDPAU works reliably on Linux to implement it.
- DCKing 7y agoGnome Web, Midori, Falkon and Konqueror are browsers that only run on the "free" desktop, and don't support VAAPI/VDPAU either. Google built an entire OS based on Gentoo, and the desktop Linux build of Chrome doesn't support video acceleration either. I think you should reconsider how easy it is to smoothly get an accelerated video buffer from a specific GPU component into an already heavily GPU optimized and dynamic web page. Web browsers have a lot more complicated graphics rendering problems to solve than VLC does.