[Bug 1424201] Re: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

[Michel-Ekimia]

** Description changed:

- This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux
- browsers.
+ This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux browsers.
+ We will close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding working OOTB without user interaction like in WinOS and MacOS
  
- In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery
- drained when playing video in browser was crazy.
+ Auhust 2022 :
  
- In july 2020, things are getting better :
+ * Ubuntu 22.04 :Launch firefox snap on Intel Tiger lake -> Check with
+ intel_gpu_top that no codec are GPU decoded ( either VPA , H264 , H265
+ or AV1 )
+ 
+ * In july 2020, things are getting better :
  
  - Chromium :
  
  A patch is used on most distro packages. Ubuntu now will integrate this
  patch on Snap chromium stable soon , more info here
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1816497
- 
  
  - Firefox :
  
  Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is
  possible and X11 is possible in nightly !
  
  Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727
  
- We shall close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding
- available in Stable.
+ * In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery
+ drained when playing video in browser was crazy.

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