On Monday, 15 November 2021 at 13:34, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:37 AM Martin Stransky <stran...@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
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