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[Daniel van Vugt <1424201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I only tested a 13th gen U chip in the above comment. It looks like 13th
gen P chips should be supported so long as:

  intel-media-driver >= 22.3.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 (per bug 2004237)

which it looks like snaps are shipping with now.

Newer Intel 14th gen and Ultra chips might not be supported yet, but if
so then please log a new bug about that.

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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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