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IDK why this post is so negative. The post says it's the first release with that feature, and that things are still improving. I'm happy that it's being worked
by est31 6y ago
IDK why this post is so negative. The post says it's the first release with that feature, and that things are still improving. I'm happy that it's being worked on at all and maybe a couple more releases down the road it's available to me as well. Mozilla/Firefox contributors are adding a feature here in the open but it turn out it's very complicated to add it.
- kelnos 6y agoRight, and my feeling is that any feature that requires you to mess around with about:config is inherently an alpha/beta feature. Expecting it to work properly on every setup is expecting too much; once it's enabled by default, then you should expect it to work out of the box, unless your hardware/OS/driver combo has been explicitly blocked due to issues.
- pstrateman 6y agoHardware accelerated video decoding is a feature that is and has been critical for battery life on laptops for years. ffmpeg has supported this for forever and yet firefox doesn't. It's bizarre.
- heftig 6y agoDo you believe enabling hardware video decoding in Firefox was a trivial effort?
- vetinari 6y agoWhat Firefox 78-80 brought was hardware video decoding under Linux, not hardware video decoding in general. Under Windows and MacOS, it has been implemented years ago. Under Linux, it wasn't. Linux has API for video acceleration and players like VLC, mpv or Kodi have been supporting it for years, as well as ffmpeg, just browsers ignored it. I'm not going to belittle the effort, quite opposite, but it is telling when this feature has been implemented by Redhat employee and not Mozilla.
- pjmlp 6y agoShould have been, after all Flash was doing it 10 years ago. Since Flash plugins were killed, Linux has been a mess for hardware accelerated video on the Web.
- mixedCase 6y agoNot killing gstreamer way back when would've helped.