On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 5:27 PM Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
After reading this thread and bz 2123998, I had thought that the Fedora 37 mesa packages retained accelerated video for open codecs (for AMD hardware). However, the Fedora wiki[1] indicates that even open codecs are no longer accelerated without third party packages. Is that true? (I don't think that I can test this, since I don't have any AMD GPUs, only Intel.)
This is not true. However, until recently, support for hardware accelerated open codecs was limited to Intel QuickSync Video, which is blocked on the VA-API driver landing in Fedora[1].
AMD VP9 decoding was added in VCN 1.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Core_Next
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1942132