I thought it always was lol
This is like the 6th time they’ve claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn’t working correctly.
Weird, it’s been working for me for a while. I just need to manually set “media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled” to true in about:config.
Weird, it’s been working for me for a while
That’s strange, I’m almost certain my desktop’s Firefox doesn’t have this (AMD GPU) while my laptop’s Firefox does (Nvidea GPU)
I just need to manually set
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabledto true in about:configOK yeah that’s something 99% of even Firefox users aren’t going to know… Bookmarking this to try when I’m back home!
I could have sworn they did this already a while back.
I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.
They don’t have mkv support by the way, that won’t ever work in Firefox. Are you sure you’re not trying to play mkv files?
Of course I am, there’s no way I can escape mkvs. It’s not too bad if it doesn’t have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue 😭
Could be wrong, but it’s not about working but rather that it is now enabled by default.
Which may haven’t been the case, I suppose?
Fedora’s repo build has had this turned on for literally years
Fedora’s repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.
Unless you’re on the KDE spin, which offers you the choice to install the codecs as a post-install step (iirc?).
It has been a while since I reinstalled Fedora KDE but I don’t think it swaps mesa/ffmpeg/gstreamer to the freeworld version automatically, it just enables the repository for it.
I’d rather have software decode of h.264 on par with Chromium. As it is I can’t watch Twitch on my laptop in Firefox.
Isn’t that just because Twitch doesn’t allow you to browse it using Firefox though?
No. The only Firefox problem I have on Twitch is that any video above 720p begins to stutter. And 720p makes my laptop work like crazy. Same on YouTube when I encounter an old video with h.264. It has already been reported. I just have to wait until someone fixes it.
Twitch is veeeeryyy slooowlyyy transitioning to AV1 for their livestreams, maybe that’ll work better than h.264 whenever it’s ready.
Fair enough. I’ve tried using twitch on my Fedora laptop with FF and I get blocked out by their browser message so I assumed that they were restricting access to chromium only.
What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.
It’s been working fine since a couple years ago on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration
The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU
VAAPI works on the integrated GPUs as well. There’s a table of supported codecs here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables
Unfortunately they never bothered to get things integrated into Mesa and they have 2 different packages.
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Firefox on android keeps turning it’s “Data Collection” options on. I’m no longer able to trust it. The company is starting to show signs of rot.
Really? Turned them off a long time ago, never seen it changing (checked now too just in case)
Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it’s still off (also just checked)
I guess he means whenever he reinstalls it. As IT, whenever I’m setting up something new on some server etc I have to go through those settings over an over. Not much different from the MS bullshit to try and reduce data collection.
Aren’t those browser settings and not user settings? I see your point and maybe those should be user settings, but saying that “Firefox on android keeps turning it’s Data Collection options on” is misleading
Have you tried Fennec?
Use a fork of Firefox that doesn’t do that. For example, Ironfox
LibreWolf and FireFoxFocus.
Zen browser is pretty interesting too
Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??
Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.
Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal
kind of, mpv
what is a video?
Sent from my Linux.
How else you watch stuff?
mpv
Just for local files or is there a way to use like Netflix through it?
mpv can play youtube and many other videos from video hosting services through yt-dlp but it can’t play DRM content like Netflix or Spotify MPV also can play video from TTY so you don’t need graphical interface like xorg or wayland to play videos
I do. When I watch Odysee.
