Fwd: Firefox Hardware acceleration & VA-API how-to

[Matthew Miller]

This seems like a great candidate for migration into quick docs!

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> 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
>
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[Brandon Nielsen]

On 11/16/21 12:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> This seems like a great candidate for migration into quick docs!
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Martin Stransky  -----
> > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:37:26 +0100
> > From: Martin Stransky 
> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora 
> > Subject: Firefox Hardware acceleration & VA-API how-to
> > Archived-At: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/G6ZAWT3BAND6UCIUVG7O24JACXZX664F/
> >
> > 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
> >
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> > Martin Stransky
> > Software Engineer / Red Hat, Inc
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Do we think this will be relevant for a long time, or that it will 
change frequently for a while and then eventually just work out of the box?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:30:10PM -0600, Brandon Nielsen wrote:
> Do we think this will be relevant for a long time, or that it will
> change frequently for a while and then eventually just work out of
> the box?

Some of this, like the proprietary driver bit, is long-term. Other things
(like, apparently there's an Firefox 94 regression?) might be over soon.