[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.
  We will close this bug when most browsers will have Va-api decoding working OOTB without user interaction like in WinOS and MacOS
  
  January 2024:
  
  - Quickest answer : Install firefox Flatpak https://flathub.org/fr/apps/org.mozilla.firefox
-  activate VAAPI with the flag media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled=true
+  activate VAAPI with the flag media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled=true
  
- - Snap : still not ready
+ - Snap : Test in Progress
  - deb from mozilla : not tested.
  
  August 2022 :
  
  * Ubuntu 22.04 : Launch firefox snap on Intel Tiger lake -> Check with
  intel_gpu_top that no codec are GPU decoded ( either VP9 , H264 or AV1 )
  
     -> change media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true = VP9 and H264 decoding works
     -> AV1 hwdec does not work in Firefox or VLC , but does with MPV . We need to fix this as most youtube is AV1 now.
  
  * In july 2020, things are getting better :
  
  - Chromium :
  
  A patch is used on most distro packages. , 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
  
  * 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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  Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

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