On 28 Sep 2022, at 14:27, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 3:22 PM Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/28/22 03:50, Tommy Nguyen wrote:
>> This change will only affect AMD, as the intel non-free drivers do not
>> depend on the changes. It is also unclear how this would affect nvidia.
>> There is barely any hardware video acceleration support for nouveau
>> anyway, for which you would install the proprietary driver. Further, as
>> NVIDIA does not expose a vaapi interface, you need to install third
>> party packages to get it to work with Firefox. So AFAICT this will
>> primarily (if not only) affect AMD users.
>
> So only everybody who specifically purchased a discrete GPU that works
> "out of the box" with Fedora?
Well, we don't ship any userspace software that provides the necessary
support code to use those codecs anyway.
Firefox was able to use VA-API on Intel (at least - I don’t have Radeon hardware
to hand) to accelerate H.264 decode.
And we ship gstreamer1-vaapi which lets any GStreamer using application (Totem, for
example) use hardware acceleration.
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Simon Farnsworth