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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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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is why I wish FPGAs were cheaper and more widely used in consumer hardware. Got a new codec? Just load up a hardware decoder for it!

[–] Peter1986c@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, technically speaking consumer graphics hardware usually has hardware decoders. Just not by using FPGAs and usually not for AV1 (yet). And I think that @yeolsongarak@lemmy.ml was speaking of encoding anyway. Regardless, using FPGAs for CODEC support sounds interesting (if possible).

[–] DPUGT2@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I can see the forum posts in my head already "HALP I BRICKED MY FPGA, AND I THINK ITS MINING SHITCOIN WITHOUT MY PERMISSION".

Though yeh, I'm interested in it too.