Am 28.09.22 um 15:27 schrieb Neal Gompa:
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.
Wasn't this being used by firefox?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration
Best regards,
Julian