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Firefox now (starting with v.96) supports AV1 VA-API playback (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by joojmachine@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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tl;dr AV1 is a new video encoding format which now has hardware acceleration through VA-API on Linux

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[โ€“] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So kind of like GPLv3 where you get a free license to the patent as long as you obey the license?

[โ€“] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, like that.