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> The decoders are almost completely useless. You'd be surprised at how often these are used.
by Denvercoder9 6y ago
> The decoders are almost completely useless.
You'd be surprised at how often these are used.
- Const-me 6y agoI wonder why? Even Raspberry Pi has a hardware decoder: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo Linux Kernel support for HEVC is WIP but I’m pretty sure they’ll integrate eventually.
- f00_ 6y agobuying vc1/mpeg licenses to use hardware decoding on raspberry pi's pre-4 was annoying https://codecs.raspberrypi.org/license-keys/ https://codecs.raspberrypi.org/license-keys/ is this because of licensing/copyright?
- Const-me 6y agoRight, now I remember these keys. But the very first Pi already had hardware h264 decoder (and even encoder!) which didn’t need any extra keys to work. No idea how they did it, maybe the license was included in the $25 price. Pi 1 was launched in 2013, at that time h264 has been already widespread, while mpeg-2 use was declining. I think that’s why they did not include the license. It increases price for all users but only useful for very few of them, who connected a USB DVD or BluRay drives to their Pi-s.
- ptsneves 6y agoIndeed. From an article here on HN there is a lack of vaapi support on Firefox and I think Chrome in linux. Furthermore there are special profiles(looking at you H264) that only work reliably in software decoders.
- mroche 6y agoMozilla added VA-API support under Wayland sessions in FireFox 76, and it'll be coming to Xorg sessions in FireFox 80.