Verified working in firefox (Wayland) on both Intel 12th and 13th gen
systems. intel_gpu_top shows hardware video decoding is in use straight
out of the box when viewing YouTube. The firefox snap versions tested
were 122.0-2 and 122.0-2.1, both Noble systems.
Caveat: intel_gpu_top also shows very high values for Render/3D, so it's
not power efficient. More work will need to be done toward zero-copy (or
just less copy) in future.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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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:
Fix Released
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 most browsers will have Va-api decoding working
OOTB without user interaction like in WinOS and MacOS
January 2024:
- Quickest answer : Install firefox Flatpak
https://flathub.org/fr/apps/org.mozilla.firefox
activate VAAPI with the flag media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled=true
- Snap : Test in Progress
- deb from mozilla : not tested.
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.
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