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From my experience hardware acceleration has been quite lacking on Ubuntu (especially noticeable when watching YouTube).
by twistedcheeslet 3y ago
From my experience hardware acceleration has been quite lacking on Ubuntu (especially noticeable when watching YouTube).
- danogentili 3y agoIt just needs a little bit of configuration in the about:config tab, it works just fine with VAAPI!
- puzzlingcaptcha 3y agoVA-API has been enabled by default for linux builds in Firefox 115 (at least for Intel GPUs). Keep in mind you also need to have the intel-media-driver installed (for Broadwell+)
- jeroenhd 3y agoIf you use an Nvidia GPU (i.e. a gaming machine or ML desktop) you'll have to force a whole bunch of settings to use it through a compatibility layer that isn't particularly stable, or accept the CPU hit of about 1 core per video file at 1080p. It's not unusable but very annoying when the fallback behaviour accidentally triggers on a laptop and your CPU ends up constantly boosting, draining the battery. Firefox on my Intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU likes to pretend the iGPU doesn't exist. Very annoying but I've given up on trying to get it to work on desktop. Chrome seems to do a lot better for somme reason.