> On 28 Sep 2022, at 14:27, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 3:22 PM Ian Pilcher <arequip...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 9/28/22 03:50, Tommy Nguyen wrote: >>> This change will only affect AMD, as the intel non-free drivers do not >>> depend on the changes. It is also unclear how this would affect nvidia. >>> There is barely any hardware video acceleration support for nouveau >>> anyway, for which you would install the proprietary driver. Further, as >>> NVIDIA does not expose a vaapi interface, you need to install third >>> party packages to get it to work with Firefox. So AFAICT this will >>> primarily (if not only) affect AMD users. >> >> So only everybody who specifically purchased a discrete GPU that works >> "out of the box" with Fedora? > > Well, we don't ship any userspace software that provides the necessary > support code to use those codecs anyway. > Firefox was able to use VA-API on Intel (at least - I don’t have Radeon hardware to hand) to accelerate H.264 decode.
And we ship gstreamer1-vaapi which lets any GStreamer using application (Totem, for example) use hardware acceleration. — Simon Farnsworth _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
