> lack of off-the-shelf hardware accelerated video decoder in the browsers on Linux Firefox has support for VAAPI decoding on Wayland, but when I tried it a mo

> lack of off-the-shelf hardware accelerated video decoder in the browsers on Linux Firefox has support for VAAPI decoding on Wayland, but when I tried it a month or two ago it was still a little rough (and only supported h264). Its also not enabled by default. An easier way to get hardware decoding that isnt buggy and supports all the accelerated codecs your hardware does is to use mpv. It has native support for youtube URLs if you have youtube-dl installed. Just make sure to use --hwdec=vaapi or set it in your mpv config.