Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux
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While some of us had it turned on for some time, some didn’t. Looks like it is fully stable now.

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.

Official release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.0/releasenotes/

  • @ghariksforge
    6•1 year ago

    VAAPI has been around for a while. Do you know why it took so long for Firefox to integrate?

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Bugs.

      There has been a hell of a lot of work done here both in Firefox, as well as other projects like mesa to get this enabled.

      • @[email protected]
        8•1 year ago

        That’s not what has happened here. This is the first time any major browser has enabled vaapi hardware acceleration by default on Linux.

        It has been previously available either to users who have switched it on, or maintainers who changed the upstream default.

        They are initially enabling for intel only due to some amd bugs that need to be ironed out. AMD will be next.

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    On my system is very busy on Render/3D, does that mean that the video acceleration is not working?

  • @skierraEnglish
    -2•1 year ago

    Congratulations!!! Only a couple of decades behind other operating systems!

      • NaNEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Same browsers on other operating systems. I don’t think Chrome enables it on Linux.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          You’re correct. This is the first time a major browser has enabled vaapi by default on linux upstream.