On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:19 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < dominik@greysector.net> wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 09:22, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 15/11/2022 23:25, Gordon Messmer wrote:
I had thought that the Fedora 37 mesa packages retained accelerated video for open codecs (for AMD hardware)
To accelerate H.264/H.265, you need to replace the stripped Fedora versions with the full versions from the RPM Fusion repository:
sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld --allowerasing sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld
--allowerasing
However, the Fedora wiki[1] indicates that even open codecs are no longer accelerated without third party packages. Is that true?
On Intel, you need to install the libva-intel-driver (i915) and intel-media-driver (iHD) packages.
Actually, it's either one or the other as they don't support the same CPUs. iHD driver is for Broadwell or newer CPUs, and the i915 is for older ones (Ice Lake is the first one it doesn't support). See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration#Configure_VA-AP... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#VA-API_drivers
The fact that it's this confusing on the -devel list means it's going to be VERY confusing to end users. We need good documentation, which unfortunately has been one of our weak points, and it needs to be broadcasted everywhere.
Thanks, Richard