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    141 year ago

    Most important for some of us

    Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.

    Yey! Test it by starting intel_gpu_top and than playing video in firefox, if row “Video” goes over 0.0% it is working!

    intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 -  921/ 925 MHz;  38% RC6
        1.78/10.41 W;      813 irqs/s
    
          IMC reads:     3883 MiB/s
         IMC writes:     1632 MiB/s
    
             ENGINES     BUSY                                         MI_SEMA MI_WAIT
           Render/3D   12.82% |████▊                                |      0%      0%
             Blitter    0.00% |                                     |      0%      0%
               Video   27.99% |██████████▍                          |      0%      0%
        VideoEnhance    0.00% |                                     |      0%      0%
    
       PID              NAME   Render/3D      Blitter        Video      VideoEnhance  
       578       RDD Process |            ||            ||███         ||            |
     32431       firefox-bin |||            ||            ||            |
      2301    elogind-daemon |||            ||            ||            |
      4151        pcmanfm-qt |            ||            ||            ||            |
      4153         keepassxc |            ||            ||            ||            |
      4154         pasystray |            ||            ||            ||            |
      4521             slack |            ||            ||            ||            |
      6067            chrome |            ||            ||            ||            |
     29222       jcef_helper |            ||            ||            ||            |
    

    Of course, you need second monitor, it goes down to 0 if video is not visible, since Firefox is not rendering it.