Based on a recent report (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/problems-with- intel-iris-xe-gpu-hardware-video-acceleration-in-22-04/34849/4), I think Firefox is missing:
* Xwayland support: requires libva >= 2.17 in the gnome-42-2204 snap. That's also missing from jammy-updates. * Intel 13th gen support: The fix for bug 2004237 needs to go in the gnome-42-2204 snap (patched iHD_drv_video.so). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201 Title: Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding Status in Chromium Browser: Unknown Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in chromium-browser package in CentOS: Unknown Bug description: This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux browsers. We will close this bug when both browsers will have Va-api decoding working OOTB without user interaction like in WinOS and MacOS August 2022 : * Ubuntu 22.04 : Launch firefox snap on Intel Tiger lake -> Check with intel_gpu_top that no codec are GPU decoded ( either VP9 , H264 or AV1 ) -> change media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true = VP9 and H264 decoding works -> AV1 hwdec does not work in Firefox or VLC , but does with MPV . We need to fix this as most youtube is AV1 now. * In july 2020, things are getting better : - Chromium : A patch is used on most distro packages. , more info here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1816497 - Firefox : Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is possible and X11 is possible in nightly ! Follow it here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727 * In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery drained when playing video in browser was crazy. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1424201/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
