>>109002454 I assume this is less efficient than the implementation on Windows and macOS which just hand off decoding to dedicated hardware on the GPU rather than using the general purpose GPU cores, right?
>>109002454 That's great but this kind of thing is a good reminder that the "year of the linux desktop" people need to take a step back and understand how unserious they sound sometimes. On Windows and Mac, hardware video decode has been taken for granted for what, 15 years? 20? It's just assumed that it'll work perfectly regardless of which player you're using or which browser you choose or which GPU vendor you're using. "Linux will now support hardware video decode under a few more scenarios" sounds like saying "Linux now supports more keyboards". You would just assume that every keyboard has always worked perfectly.
>>109002674 Actually no. If I understand correctly, this does use the dedicated hardware. "Vulkan Video" is a new API which exposes hardware decoders to Vulkan programs.
>>109002713 >Actually no. If I understand correctly, this does use the dedicated hardware. "Vulkan Video" is a new API which exposes hardware decoders to Vulkan programs. Oh, nice. So the graphic card vendors have finally done the impossible and agreed on a standard. It only took like 20 years.
>>109002500 >>109002725 is there a single project that behaves like Librewolf but for FireFox ESR? IceCat barely changes shit aside from Stallman autism
why firefox doesn't just pass the video to ffmpeg instead of doing all this bullshit stuff? we should be able to play wmv or amv video from the browser but no they don't want because "muh standard types". mozilla failed the people.
>>109003668 Because like all other surveillance capitalism browsers, they're in bed with spyware and marketing syndicates that wouldn't be able to track you, restrict you, or serve you ads as easily if media playback was delegated to software outside of their control that by design doesn't support RCE of their obfuscated proprietary javascript blobs.
>>109004158 probably a nvidia user that needs to jump through hoops to get vaapi to work (through unofficial hacky means) because nobody supports nvdec or vdpau in web browsers
nvidia been pushing for vulkan decode in them as a solution
I don't know what the fuck firefox is doing with their video stack, but I have to permanently keep GPU acceleration disabled because it makes videos flicker and GPU drivers crash out the ass they are going to be able to fuck it up even more spectacularly with vulkan, with it being a lower level API
>>109004278 well, it mostly is for amd and intel users (not that it can't be flaky with some setups) -- for nvidia, it is in most things *except* web browsers