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The Pi 3 doesn't have HEVC hardware decoding, but the 4 does.

• squarefoot 6y ago
  It's still a pain in the ass watching a 720p youtube video on Raspbian+RPi 4 from Firefox. It's barely fluid when windowed while stutters as hell in fullscren with the CPU constantly overheating, and 1080p is much worse. Under Kodi it's way different, of course, still I wonder why one can't have video acceleration on the desktop.
  • zozbot234 6y ago
    Latest Firefox release has video acceleration support, only under Wayland for now.
  • gjsman-1000 6y ago
    It's complicated. Basically, when you are playing Firefox, there is a lot of memory copying going on. If you download your youtube videos beforehand using youtube-dl and play using omxplayer, the result is virtually glitch free. A better option is to install the YouTube extension on top of Kodi on Raspbian. You might also need to disable the new OpenGL driver as well. Once that is done, Kodi (which has Pi GPU patches in place) can play YouTube at 1080p30 beautifully.
    • squarefoot 6y ago
      "A better option is to install the YouTube extension on top of Kodi on Raspbian." Yup, that was how I watched Youtube videos for years (although Kodi was on LibreElec). Now unfortunately all Kodi extensions using Google APIs require registration, which of course is a huge privacy violation since I'm (still) not forced to do that on browsers.