Linux @lemmy.ml Leaflet @lemmy.world 4w ago

Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux

www.mozilla.org Firefox Beta 136.0beta, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

Firefox @lemmy.ml Leaflet @lemmy.world 4w ago

www.mozilla.org /en-US/firefox/136.0beta/releasenotes/

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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?
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?
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.
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?).
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
its already working for me, and was for a long time.
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
- How else you watch stuff?
  
  mpv
- what is a video?
  
  Sent from my Linux.
- I do. When I watch Odysee.

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