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[Daniel van Vugt <1424201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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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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