Can Firefox meanwhile play video via hardware acceleration on Linux or does it s...

bwat49 · on June 26, 2018

The linux version of firefox still doesn't even have opengl compositing by default, so I wouldn't hold your breath for hardware decoding any time soon.

There is a bounty for the issue here: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/55506502-add-va-api-hard...

It seems like the only hope we have for hardware decoding in a major browser on linux any time soon is if this chromium patch ever gets landed: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/53...

But they are taking their sweet, sweet time.

jackewiehose · on June 26, 2018

Not sure if this is related but my firefox/linux experience with video is also bad:

  - tearing all the time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing)
  - Netflix doesn't support HD on linux
  - Amazon doesn't support HD on linux (for movies. But shows seem to be 1080p)

bscphil · on June 27, 2018

> - Netflix doesn't support HD on linux

True that they don't support it, not true that it doesn't work, thanks to the wonderful people who take the time to fix other people's bugs. https://github.com/vladikoff/netflix-1080p-firefox

bwat49 · on June 26, 2018

Enabling OpenGL compositing with layers.acceleration.force-enabled true should take care of the tearing.

Has the potential to cause issues depending on graphics driver though