On Monday, 15 November 2021 at 13:34, Fabio Valentini wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:37 AM Martin Stransky stransky@redhat.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I was told that people were having trouble with Firefox/HW acceleration/VA-API setup on Fedora so I put some info at wiki at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration
Hope it helps. Martin
I appreciate the effort to document ways to improve things. However:
Video decoding on NVIDIA Please buy some real Linux hardware.
This doesn't really help at all. Is it supposed to be funny, or is it just cynical resignation?
I mean, even if I *could* throw a couple hundred bucks out the window to replace a perfectly working NVidia hardware, most places don't even seem to have AMD graphics cards in stock right now. Does that just mean "tough luck" for users like me?
Well, nVidia refuses to support VA-API like Intel and AMD do and the VA-API-to-VDPAU won't help because dmabuf support is still required. So... tough luck:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669189 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729
... and probably others.
Regards, Dominik