Firefox vp9 hardware acceleration. It is turned on as per vivaldi://gpu.

Firefox vp9 hardware acceleration dabc009-2 VDPAU backend for VA API. Iâ ve also tried: sudo zypper remove MozillaFirefox and re-installed the browser via Flatpak. 264 H. Use an extension to use h264 instead, but you will lose 1440p option in videos I can second this and confirm that I needed to turn off hardware acceleration on both Chrome and Firefox for the driver failures to stop. g. Thank you for the assistance for the driver developer. Driver is here. The Run Firefox like this. Is it possible to get hardware acceleration on firefox or chrome with a nvidia gpu and nvidia proprietary drivers? 4096 4096 H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE 51 65536 4096 4096 VP9_PROFILE_0 1 262144 8192 8192 VP9_PROFILE_1 --- not supported --- VP9_PROFILE_2 1 262144 8192 8192 VP9_PROFILE_3 --- not supported --- HEVC_MAIN Anyone have issues with enabling Hardware Acceleration on Google Chrome and YouTube? If I open a video on youtube in firefox, my second monitor will get horizontal banding that flickers every few seconds. Reply reply Enable hardware acceleration (note: this has sudo in the command). [Child 7022: Main I successfully installed the necessary drivers for my gpu via sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver vainfo, but Firefox still lacks hardware video acceleration when browsing Youtube (VP9). Firefox and Chrome both don't support VP9 in Hardware and Safari is H. For a technical explanation, please see Comment 13 in Bug 1693073. Reply reply diceman2037 • sounds like your CPU is just not up to . 45 now plays videos with hardware acceleration. enabled true I now verify libraries Welcome to /r/Linux! This is a community for sharing news about Linux, interesting developments and press. A lot of incoming Chrome users are in for a bit of a let down, when it comes to video acceleration. 10 I recall hardware acceleration working as expected. > > You have two choices in Firefox. 2. brave://gpu shows that I have "Video Decode: Hardware accelerated" but when I take a look at the media dev tools the "video decode -> hardware decoder" still displays false. vaapi. Search for media. What prompts you to choose one codec over the other anyways? Maybe disabling hardware acceleration will make avc smooth too Reply reply More replies More replies. Since I Suspect Firefox devs will just let older GPUs die out naturally instead of implementing AV1->VP9->VP8 fallback behaviour, matching the GPU capabilities, I decided to write this: A little Hardware accelerated video decoding (for video playback or for WebRTC) is available via VA-API for both X11 and Wayland. 7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5. Last edited by progandy (2020-12 Hello. On Chrome and Edge this issue is not present even when watching the same stream and with hardware acceleration turned on. (Version with VP9 codec support) As the title says, as of today's Firefox's update (v. Firefox Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode that temporarily turns off hardware acceleration, resets some settings, and disables add-ons (extensions and themes). Benefits: Hardware video I tested the same video in mpv (with yt-dlp), which is able to use NVDEC to accelerate decoding. 264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos. Enable the advised flags in vivaldi://flags, #enable-vp9-kSVC-decode-acceleration and #canvas-oop-rasterization; Make sure vaapi is working with command vainfo from package libva-utils; Run vivaldi stable with the Is anyone successful in getting hardware acceleration on Wayland? none of the flags seems to work in my case:--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder--disable-gpu-memory-buffer-compositor-resources--disable-gpu-memory-buffer-video-frames--enable-hardware-overlays--ignore-gpu-blocklist IIRC, older systems than 2019 are unable to use hardware acceleration to decode VP9, hence they become unwatchable in higher resolutions. The full set of codecs being available only on Pascal hardware, which adds VP9 and 10 bit support. For smoothest It won't help with h265/VP9 video at all unless you have a recent GPU, but a desktop or laptop with a recent GPU probably also is capable of decoding those in software with ease. My card is an rtx 2060. Thank you, @xtknight for the initial VP9 acceleration bits. 0-1016-lowlatency (64-bit) Hi, Hardware acceleration on my Intel CPU was working well in Firefox for awhile, and as of a few weeks ago stopped working. Still wondering why Lenovo Vantage was not updating it automatically or at least telling that there is a new graphic driver is available. Long story short It seems that some previous Firefox crash left the following setting on about:config: media. enabled false I can play the VP9 format youtube video smoothly for 1080p, acceptable for 1440p and slightly lag for 2160p by Google Chrome. MPV. Currently, only Intel GPU seems to support VP9 hardware acceleration on linux. I'm on newest drivers with Relive Firefox. When i use H264 Youtube Codec in chrome to view the 1080p 60fps video the CPU load is 30-60% and the hardware acceleration of the graphics card is working (screen1). Everything seems to be working fine except for FireFox and hardware acceleration. enabled: false) and AV1 (media. smartfon . If I tur hardware acceleration completely then the image get choppy as hell - with acceleration enabled it is quite smooth, but frames are dropped. Description of the issue: A recent update of Brave broke OpenGL hardware acceleration on YouTube videos whether on H264 or VP9 (I have AV1 disabled via an extension since my GPU cannot decode that). A web browser that supports hardware acceleration support for AV1, or another application that supports it. This is based on the Arch mainline kernel hardware acceleration. decoder for hardware decoding, so if you use Windows 7, you'll get no VP9 hardware decoding at all since Windows 7 does not have the VP9 MF decoder and In 2020, Microsoft and Google equipped their browsers with hardware acceleration for the AV1 video support. enabled to My potato pc(amd A8-7600, 8G ram, rx560 2G) is not capable of YouTube vp9 hardware acceleration, but I played 1080p 60fps videos without difficulty using add-ons that force h264 decoding, but the videos started stuttering a while ago. Firefox (and nothing based on it) has zero GPU acceleration for Nvidia GPUs. For test purpose, install h264ify extension which makes YouTube stream H. Search for gfx. Tried with no addons/clean profile, but no luck. enabled set to true for AVC/h. I have VAAPI enabled, and ffmpeg itself is able to HW accelerate VP9 decoding. Installed enhanced-h264fy plugin on Google Chrome (stable), but it just blocks some codecs, it still uses CPU for video playback. Install/update "VP9 Video Extensions" and "AV1 Video Extension" from the Microsoft Store then reboot. Restart Firefox. 0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31. bugzilla. 2 Likes. i Hardware video acceleration (Русский) Гибридное декодирование VP9 на процессорах от Broadwell до Skylake, а также гибридное декодирование VP8 на процессорах от Haswell до Skylake, поддерживается intel-hybrid-codec-driver AUR 6 Начиная с Firefox 75 (firefox-nightly AUR). 4664. 04-20-2020, 06:25 PM . My experience so far is there are times it works wonderfully and others when it isn't working at all. 7-rcX. If it works for you, Vivaldi I also tried streaming that video in VLC with hardware acceleration on, this caused the video to artifact every few seconds while stuttering. Hardware accelerated video decoding is available on Intel via VA-API, it's enabled by default since firefox-101. acceleration. Firefox will soon be adding support for the hardware-accelerated AV1 decoder. From previous experimentation, I know about Firefox does not take advantage of hardware acceleration even Hardware Accelerated VP9 Support on Linux via VAAPI has Landed on Nightly. You can try to play a H. i'm just now grabbing a new copy of ubuntu 22 and will Videos up to 480p will then use AV1 (software decode) for playback & higher resolutions will use VP9 (which should be hardware decoded as long as you have configured Firefox correctly). Hi, Hardware acceleration on my Intel CPU was working well in Firefox for awhile, and as of a few weeks ago stopped working. The biggest use case for hardware acceleration is in embedded hardware like Raspberry Pis which indeed chug using software decoding. Reply reply More replies. 4GB on Solus 4. The following was false in the documentation for some time. Firefox attempts to use the RDD process for VP8/VP9 but the RDD sandbox blocks VA-API access . And now, according to the bug report tracking their effort, it’s ready for roll-out. review Firefox settings as described in the documentation restart Firefox VP9 (media. (Also, I have not checked if your GPU maybe does not support h. Youtube player running, and gpu top shows that the video engine is being used. pinguyos comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment [deleted] • Additional comment actions YouTube defaults to VP9 which is not hardware accelerated in Firefox yet. enabled and media. Got those twodownloaded and restarted, seems like it didn't change anything. You can use hardware acceleration on Chrome and Firefox. fps). Is this an ongoing bug in Firefox? i7-8750H, Intel UHD 630, FF 87 Media Enable VP9 hardware acceleration on windows. 1-4 package it's enabled by default for Intel/AMD users. config/. 264 and H. One being AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) and the other, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (RADV NAVI23). I was having a similar problem today. There are two processes that take a lot of cpu usage percentage: “RDD Process” about 70% of cpu “Isolated Web co” about 20% of cpu Am i using hardware acceleration on firefox or not? How can i check? You can check VA-API acceleration state at about:support page, look at HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING row. Firefox (in Arch) directly uses ffmpeg (about:config | layers. If there's available by default, you're running on Verify that hardware acceleration is working by running the Firefox Flatpak from the terminal with verbose logging: flatpak run --verbose org. ffvpx. Activating Hardware Acceleration on Firefox is way easier than Edge or Chrome. enabled to false), or disable VP9 (value of media. Can confirm this by running sudo intel_gpu_top and the Video 'engine' not showing any activity as well as high CPU usage by Firefox. Disabled * Skia Graphite: Disabled * Video Decode: Hardware accelerated * Video Encode: I have some questions surrounding hardware acceleration on Firefox on an Ivy Bridge processor. Browser choice is also very tricky,right now the best browser that supports flawless VP9 playback is Microsoft Edge. So we need a driver, that pretend to be VA-API but have NVDEC under its hood. Firefox doesn't have compositing acceleration enabled by default on Linux even though it does make a huge difference and works well in general. Reply reply Benefits of updating to this driver include addition of partial hardware acceleration for the VP9 video format (for Chrome video playback, Google Hangouts), GPU accelerated decode of HEVC video format (for 4K Ultra HD What is preventing Firefox from using hardware acceleration here? The mpv successfully uses VA-API and CPU load for 1080p video is around 12-14% so I assume all the VA-API drivers are installed and video and stays disabled in chromium and opera. No hardware acceleration on Wayland. out9. This is not an April Fools joke, but rather a completed effort for running on NVIDIA GPUs. I don't think you can do anything to fix the vp9 issue. The hardware acceleration for decoding youtube H264 in Firefox is also enabled after updating. I tested on firefox 96 (nightly) to give best shot possible. navigator. Ubuntu 21. Hardware Description API H. I also have nvidia GPU there, but Now that hardware acceleration is available for non-wayland firefox stable users, I thought of making a simple guide to enable it. cd nvidia-driver-on-clear-linux/HWAccel sudo bash build-all cp firefox/firefox. VP9 software decoding has been optimized a lot over the last few years. I can't seem to get it to work, whether through Chrome or Firefox Nightly, but even through MPV and MPC-HC. Anyways, despite all of this, if I use nvtop and play a video on YouTube, I can hear my case fans (attached to CPU temp) spin up and nvtop shows around 30% CPU utilization for firefox and only about Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decode/encode video, thus offloading the CPU and saving power. Firefox does not play VP9 past 720p@60 if the intel. Then I found your post!! I've spent 3~4 The other day I spent some time trying to figure out how to get hardware acceleration working on Flatpak Firefox as the information to do it seemed to be scattered around a few different posts and threads. 1-1 Intel VA-API Media Applications and Scripts for libva local/libva-vdpau-driver-vp9-git r51. webm. At the best, try a reboot to be sure that no Firefox instance is still active. The note about missing ffnvcodec from NVENC applies for NVDEC as well. I remotely remember reading something about Firefox using OS files to decode stuff, while Chrome uses its own better codes. profile with media. 1, to clear the RAM usage, and then when it had exited, re-started it and re-loaded that video. e. media. Enable hardware acceleration in Settings - General - Performance, uncheck the recommended and check the Use hardware acceleration when available. webrender. enabled to false in about:config. wmf. When MSE arrives, h264ify will also block VP9. webm uses 6% of CPU time on my PC, too. MOZ_LOG=“PlatformDecoderModule:5” firefox. All of my trials were in vain but here is what I did: Or you could try to completely disable vp9 playback in firefox in about:config with media. I understand Chrome does that better. So obviously I was disappointed that I couldn't get hardware acceleration to work. I have VP9 extensions already installed. My computer's hardware should support hardware decode because Chromium browsers can do it just fine. See Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration (ArchWiki). enabled and set both to true. Then play video in YouTube to check if hardware decoding worked. H. 3 important things: I was unable to make Firefox stable to see this new driver. This is with hardware acceleration set on. This means that it's clearly an issue with the driver. The Pascal cards have full 8K VP9 hardware decoding(not acceleration). [Screenshots] Issue Filed on Bugzilla It appears that Firefox does not properly utilize GPU to Firefox 76 came out yesterday, bringing to the table - amongst more widely known features - initial support for hardware acceleration of VP9-encoded videos for Wayland. I've finally managed to get video hardware acceleration working in Firefox on So in this case I prefer Firefox with hardware-accelerated video playback (on which, using Wayland and Firefox on the same laptop, video playback is fluid, but the CPU usage is greater than using a Only needed for In this past year there has been work to make Firefox hardware decode video on Linux. In Firefox web browser, type about:config in address bar and hit Enter. 264 MVC H. 264 on YouTube and Twitch. Opera, Chrome, IE show around 70-80% GPU load and 30-40% CPU load when running youtube while Firefox shows 0-5% GPU Usage and 100% CPU load. firefox. conf for mpv to use hardware acceleration for VP9 on Intel Broadwell (and probably later): hwdec = auto-safe vo = gpu profile = gpu-hq. forum. h264ify no longer works in chrome, as well in vivaldi. So the following settings need to be changed in about:config: media. This means you are well equipped because YouTube, for example, usually uses From the wiki page you linked, it seems hardware acceleration for Firefox with Iris Xe graphics is dependent on waiting for Mozilla to fully implement it. Iâ ve installed intel-media-driver and enabled vaapi in Firefox. Here are some information from chrome://gpu: Video Acceleration Information ============================== Decoding : Decode h264 baseline : 16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels Decode h264 main : 16x16 to 4096x4096 pixels Decode h264 high : 16x16 to Enable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox & Get 1080p in Youtube’s HTML5 player . Right as the video starts Firefox attempts to use the RDD process for VP8/VP9 but the RDD sandbox blocks VA-API access [14]. I've been reading up on video hardware acceleration and followed instructions on the Arch Wiki about this. If that works, we can look elsewhere. - does using 'libva-vdpau-driver — A VDPAU-based backend for VA-API. AMD Polaris VP9 acceleration,on the other hand,is a hybrid solution. Since firefox-101. Any idea how to Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video decoder/encoder to decode/encode video, thus offloading the CPU and saving power. VP8 is no here, and VP9 is Navi or RDNA under VA-API decoding: Hardware video acceleration - ArchWiki. Firefox also doesn't have any video decode acceleration in Linux. Check vivaldi://gpu if it enables hardware acceleration. Note: So far this has been tested with an AMD GPU, but I believe Intel and Nvidia should also work. Hi all. If Firefox is open, you can restart in Firefox Safe Mode from the Help menu: Click the menu button , click Help and select Restart with Add-ons In Firefox, compositing shows WebRender, I've enabled vaapi, and I've made sure I'm running in wayland mode. Then, open a YouTube video. My laptop video cards are Intel HD Graphics 4000 and GeForece 640M LE. in firefox "Enter about:config in address bar: media. 3 Kernel Version: 6. fyi you can apply rkvdec h264 and vp9 kernel patches to 5. [Screenshots] Issue Filed on Bugzilla VP9 hardware HW acceleration of VP9 decoding on Linux not working . D3D11 stutters and goes out of sync like crazy, it’s Hello. I guess it's designed only for the VA-API, even though ffmpeg evidently supports NVENC. Thing is, the Raspberry Pi 4 supports hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding, using a Linux kernel API called Video4Linux Memory-to-Memory (V4L2-M2M). Thus, Firefox developers have been working hard to add support for V4L2-M2M to Firefox’s ARM builds. I can verify that with intel_gpu_top. Firefox on Windows can't hardware decode VP9. The experiment is done in Google Chrome version 47 and Firefox version 43. 1-4. 0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31. Sample decode using CUDA: ffmpeg VP9 Hardware Acceleration Broken for Firefox and Edge. Most youtube videos will be on VP9 or AV1 and your video card can't hardware decode neither of them, that's why you would get those messages. 265 VP8 VP9 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC1 VC1RCV Xvid Venus Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs v4l2m2m Y Y - Y Y Y Y Y Y - Y Hantro Rockchip SoCs / Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. mediadatadecoder_vpx_enabled to true to enable hardware VA-API decoding for WebRTC . 99) there's no vp8/9 ( youtube) hardware acceleration. My hardware has no issues playing the same HD videoâ s using smplayer when opening the url, so it is really a browser issue (which seems to play videoâ s using CPU instead of GPU). 0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140715214327 Steps to reproduce: On a computer without hardware VPX video acceleration : - Play a WebM video in Firefox (VP8 or VP9 codec) and see how the CPU is used - Play the same video with Totem on Ubuntu (12. Curious that should only be the case for WebM/VP9. Set media. No VP9 on Firefox android? (RIP vanced) but the codec always says AVC1 i. Firefox has had this problem ever since I can remember. Especially when playing HD videoâ s. 2 in order to successfully use hardware acceleration without driver failures anymore. enabled false; about:support; My thoughts from Riot: Supposition based on information above: we're dropping frames because we're creating media decoders and the stall in creating those decoders puts us behind on decodes. h header. Try changing media. 92. and improved visual quality than its predecessor VP9 and H. 264 и Wayland, а Also again, i want to use hardware decoding WITH firefox not outside of it, not with other software (except libs) and not with buggy software that youtube-dl is (having used it with mozplugger mpv xvmc on an old atom netbook) ps annotations is a thing Neither the vaapi nor the vdpau drivers have video acceleration for VP9 decoding, you won't even be able to play it with hardware I wonder if VP9 hardware acceleration is working for you at all? On my computer VP9 is CPU decoded, which results in lots of dropped frames. SUPPORT | SOLVED Yes, Youtube has videos in H264,VP9 and AV1 but there's no H264 videos higher than 1080P and on the desktop i think you only get them if you force it, AV1 is the newer codec so there's not as many videos as there are in VP9, so there's a good chance it happened while playing a VP9 video. Joined: Dec 2019. It may also still require special config changes and environment variables. Newer hardware by Intel, AMD and Nvidia may support AV1 hardware decoding as well. Enabling vulkan renderer causes white background instead of video. mpv is able to use hardware decoding on that video (again, the codec used was VP9). I guess you could use the Intel iGPU, but ew. 04) and :aklotz has run into this and provided some further info. 1 flatpak version I have H264 hardware decode acceleration but don’t have VP9 and AV1. I also have nvidia GPU there, but the display is connected to iGPU. In about:support, they are listed as green and supported with HW supported. VA-API do not support Nvidia proprietary drivers. Install firefox if you don't have. Sadly, am not sure how long but there was an incorrect setting for Firefox preventing it from decoding using hardware acceleration using NVIDIA graphics. Chrome, Chromium, and Brave (idk about Ungoogled Chromium) work with GPU accelerated video decode with Nvidia GPUs, but it does require setup, and a forked libva-vdpau-driver. If there's available by default, you're running on hardware by default. Setting the ffvpx flag off doesn't seem to do anything. However, my Firefox does not seem to show hardware capabilities. mediasource. However, you still need to install vaapi, and ffmpeg from rpmfusion. You can check VA-API And you are correct that mobile Ryzen technically added VP9 hardware acceleration first, my earlier comment was simply in context of desktop GPUs. I would cheak to see if your videocards supports VP9 Hardware acceleration, But I believe M$ Edge just got that feature in testing (so no youtube playback). the best you can do is enable vp9 peer setting in about:config. Top 1% Rank by size . It is turned on as per vivaldi://gpu. Firefox on Linux doesn't support hardware decoding of video unless you're using Wayland, and version 75 (76 for non-H. Video Acceleration (vp9) is working again! Running Firefox on KDE Plasma, natively on Wayland, on an Intel UHD 620 chip, with a working "intel-media-driver" package. Please note, however, the word initial there - few tweaks are gonna At the same time, all new versions of Firefox work successfully with the VP9 hardware decoder in both LTSC 1809 and W10Pro 1903, but many versions there are already no ideal smooth playback (especially on the existing AMD equipment, everything is fine on Intel), as in Chrome and in general using FireFox for known reasons (intentional blocking I wanted to enable hardware video acceleration in Firefox via VA-API to lower CPU utilization by following the Arch wiki guide and applying the corresponding tweaks. 5845. This seems to include most of the latest and greatest 4k and 8k videos I've used on YouTube that are hardest on the CPU, also available at lower resolutions in the same codec. 264 (no HEVC/h. HW acceleration of VP9 decoding on Linux not working . Run Firefox and click on the drop down menu and select Help > About Firefox and update if prompted. Type about:config in address bar. After restarting, Iâ ve tried to see if the hardware acceleration is enabled, but itâ s still disabled. Does anybody know what is missing in order to get Firefox working? Firefox. 1 RPM version I have VP9 and AV1 hardware decode acceleration but don’t have H264. 264 on User Agent: Mozilla/5. I asked about this on the Xanasoft forum on Apr 29, 2023, but I didn't get any meaningful answers! I can't believe there isn't a setting, e. Reply reply hamsterkill • Whoa, whoa, whoa. 04’s switch to wayland luckily makes this feature more accessible and easier to enable. Now I just need to find a way to force GPU acceleration . The release is scheduled on May 3, 2022. Both drivers can co-exist with few tweaks to the installation process. So I had to install unstable branch Firefox Nightly. Did one somehow managed to successfully enable hw acceleration under Debian Buster or bookworm with Firefox ESR (91)? Looked at a few posts out there in the interwebs but none really seems to work. I tried Dailymotion, it was a lot smoother, but with chrome and opera, it seemed to be a bit of stutter. Iâ m back with the same topic, this time with Firefox. mozilla. It seems I better give up on VP9 hardware acceleration on linux and get the fastest CPU I can afford. Also, vp9 hardware acceleration doesn't work in either chrome or edge, but works in firefox. enabled: true) content are decoded using the video engine. Chromium 96. This is how I was able to get it working (on version 83. Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 11 votes and 13 comments In short: Firefox understand only VA-API HW acceleration. 263 H. For now, you can either disable HW decoding only for VP9 (media. The heavy download&buffering(come on,it's 4K and 8K videos) affects the CPU usage a lot. But when I play the Youtube video, here are my 2 observations: I noticed that Firefox uses less CPU usage than Vivaldi on Wayland when decoding 4K with VP9. That's because your system This adds experimental NVIDIA hardware video acceleration support to vdpau-va-driver for videos encoded using VP9 Profile 0 8-bit color depth. 0. force-enabled;true). But for now make sure Firefox is actually using it. I'm getting high CPU usage when watching YouTube videos on Firefox. ffmpeg. for Linux local/libva-utils 2. 265 or VP9 support on Polaris) shows an uptick of around 20% on the GPU core via radeontop when launching a Desktop linux finally has hardware accelerated video playback / decoding so you can finally watch youtube without draining your battery. Before installing the add-on, on youtube's "Stats for nerds" it said VP9, after the add-on it now shows avc1, so the add-on is working. $ MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox. В Firefox 75 поддерживаются только технологии H. On Firefox 123. 264(or avc1) and see if hardware decoding is working then, there are addons to force H. AV1 promises better Chromium need to make it easier to enable the hardware acceleration like how firefox did. all and set it to true. Still doesn't work. config/mpv/mpv. That is the only way to be sure hardware acceleration in firefox is working properly. If you're looking for tech support, /r/Linux4Noobs is a friendly community that can help you. 0 Qt Version: 5. Apparently, one may be able to install a VA-API -> NVENC translation layer such as libva-nvidia-driver . 264 This is a known issue -Bug 1314458- with VP9 hardware decoding. ) with an Intel graphics card and `intel_gpu_top` shows me that it's using VAAPI for this. The packages I installed: - libva-vdpau-driver-vp9-git All of them using latest drivers HW HW acceleration enabled in Firefox, but still left forced to play AV1 via CPU, avoiding your GPU HW acceleration. 04 or 14. I tried using FIrefox, and hardware decoding worked fine for Youtube videos, along with mpv which also worked fine. vaapi-drm-display. I needed to perform a DDU and roll back to 20. So Firefox 102 just landed in nixpkgs, which contains the fix for VA-API with the RDD sandbox, and there is support for VA-API using the nvidia drivers by default with NixOS now - I’d really like to start rendering videos with my GPU, so I figured I’d give it a try. webm flag is enabled, with it off I got the same performance as Chrome (slight stuttering at 1080p@60). In order to build FFmpeg with DXVA2 support, you need to install the dxva2api. Reputation: 73 #11. I installed Chromium from the fedora official source. Usually youtube goes in the order of av1>vp9>avc depending on your hardware capability. But only under X. To check, click the menu button (three bar sandwich), choose Options, select the Advanced panel, select the General tab, check Use hardware acceleration when available (if unchecked). Follow the instructions on the Arch Wiki here on how to verify if your GPU On Firefox, everything is smooth with the uhd 620. This includes a YouTube player script calling ffmpeg and ffplay so able to watch HDR YouTube videos in 10-bits output. Likewise and thank you, @xuanruiqi for the VP9-update to include additional fixes. That is, it is not implemented at all. Youtube stream remains VP8/VP9. New comments cannot be posted and votes zeroknight said. 264 (1080p only and only 720p for some videos) but my phone supports VP9 with hardware acceleration and works fine on chrome and brave. Turning off hardware acceleration "fixed" the issue, but of course introduced lag in websites which required more power to run. Starting in version 100, Mozilla Firefox will use hardware acceleration when playing AV1 videos. ; Video Decode and When looking up information about Microsoft Edge on Linux, it seems like hardware video acceleration should be working out of the box, but I’m having doubts about this being the case. Hardware acceleration disabled Vulkan: Enabled WebGL: Hardware accelerated WebGL2: Hardware accelerated. Expected results: Hardware acceleration should work resulting in lower CPU usage and subsequently lower power consumption. enabled set to false disables firefox internal software decoding of VP8/VP9 and forces hardware decoding "then i disable hardware acceleration and its run better Because firefox does not work with Hardware acceleration, but loads the CPU if you have not installed the VP9 codec separately. For decode standalone VP9 file, 4k 30fps can decode smoothly. A part of Firefox's changelog : The Linux sandbox has been strengthened: processes exposed to web content no longer have access to the X Window system (X11). There’s a browser extension to force YouTube videos to H264; that might be useful to force acceleration if you can get it hardware-accelerated (likely from the freeworld package) The whole point of it is to offload video to the GPU, which is more suited for handling the load. It must remain enabled (default) or decoding via hardware acceleration will not work. 264 and vp9 hardware acceleration with FFmpeg and Firefox. There are several ways to achieve this on Linux: Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by Intel. enabled true; profile with media. In addition, I also tried running Firefox via the terminal with the command MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox , which indeed starts Firefox, but without video acceleration Still, it may be something Firefox can work around, but you need to find what changes since 43 caused it to break. This includes a YouTube player script calling ffmpeg and ffplay so able to watch HDR YouTube videos in 10-bit Initially, mpv couldn’t even play videos. Haswell Refresh to Skylake VP9 decoding and Broadwell to Skylake hybrid VP8 encoding is supported by intel-hybrid-codec-driver-gitAUR. Hardware video acceleration is a computer technology to make the graphics card to encode and decode video, thus offloading the CPU to save power. Has anybody tried to get this working on NixOS? It appears that Firefox cannot find the appropriate libva libraries. I have a RX 480. Any useful hints? Related Topics I have i5-8259U CPU with Iris Plus 655 iGPU which is capable of decoding YouTube's VP8/VP9. enabled to The issue is not present on Firefox and happens more or less on every Chromium browser, but Chrome and Opera seem to be most affected. 15. My motivation is simply wanting hardware Hardware accelerated video decoding (for video playback or for WebRTC) is available on Intel/AMD via VA-API for both X11(EGL) and Wayland. org. Please help! hardware acceleration in firefox . Everything is working normally on Firefox. On Ubuntu 21. hardware-video-decoding. - I am running enhanced-h264ify as I understand that this processor can't handle VP8/VP9 decoding. Video Acceleration (vp9) is working again! Running Firefox on KDE Plasma, natively on Firefox hardware video acceleration . Would appreciate some clues or help Share Add a Comment. Finally, thank you @elFarto for the NVDEC-enabled driver. On newer cards, we need not use the enhanced-h264ify extension as VP8/VP9 is decoded in hardware. Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled. And yes, Hardware Acceleration is enabled in Settings. This guide also assumes you are running Xorg. I am filled with joy in completing testing H. Remark: Hardware acceleration in chromium and mpv works without errors, as does ffmpeg with --hwaccel=vdpau. 265 codecs. In chrome, I do not have this issue. I'll also post the output of vainfo and vdpauinfo at the bottom as well. If i remember the chromium vaapi was on ubuntu chromium snap, Arch Linux chromium vaapi and Fedora chromium vaapi. RandomJerk May 19, 2023, 3:44pm 6. rdd-vpx. firefox 75 (and improved in 76) Seems, they fixed something in version 96. Translating to human language: now you can watch YouTube videos without making your laptop fans spinning at full speed. benchmark. conf ~/. It even works with N Your 2080 have hardware acceleration for VP9 8K60, though it lacks hardware acceleration for the new AV1 codec. Also does your graphics card support vp9 hardware acceleration? nvidia Hardware acceleration is on and supported. xx. This was the only setting that made YouTube videos smooth and fully GPU accelerated on Nvidia GPUs. Lost touchpad gestures (pinch to zoom and horizontal overscroll for going backwards/forwards in history) as well. I've Now that hardware acceleration is available for non-wayland firefox stable users, I thought of making a simple guide to enable it. Disabling the remote data decoder for VP8/VP9 process means VA-API will run in the content process instead. all true media. Symptoms: Video playback via browser like firefox is laggy/choppy with cpu spiking. . With Wayland, you need to nudge mpv to do the right thing: gpu-context = wayland. I'm using only `--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder` flag. Flatpak hasnâ t worked either, which is weird AFAIK Chrome also only supports VP9 HW > acceleration on Windows 10 (that currently only works for Inten and Nvidia), > for AMD it's behind an experimental feature. enabled = false Bug 1230265 - VP9 Estimizer: isTypeSupported should test whether machine can decode 720p VP9 in real-time (please do not comment in bug reports I'm on linux and using firefox i did everything i could to enable hardware acceleration but the cpu usage still shoots up to 100% for every youtube video I'm using arch-linux kde+wayland, using a laptop with ryzen 7 6800h so i don't think hardware is the problem Now I can definitely say that Vivaldi don't use VAAPI acceleration of my GPU. I have hardware accelerated video playback on Youtube for VP9 but not for H. av1. Please use this page to get started for your hardware and verify capabilities Firefox: so I disabled AV1 in FF, and instead, plays VP9. Supported codecs Decode. I'd rather not disable hardware acceleration if I can. Tried Firefox, i set the its hardware acceleration flag to True. I Contrast to Firefox, when I played the video there, the CPU usage went to around 30-40%, with "Use hardware acceleration when available" settings turned on, and I can watch the video smoothly. I thought the snap version will be the new chromium vaapi but dont know they just remove the vaapi hardware acceleration option again n again. 11. More posts you may like The latest news and developments on Firefox and Mozilla, a Bug 1261273 - MSE with webm/vp9 should be automatically enabled on platform with VP9 hardware decoder Bug 1260305 - VP9 Estimizer enables VP9 even when media. (6th gen Intel CPU uses hybrid acceleration, but it still works and uses less CPU You can check VA-API acceleration state at about:support page, look at HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING row. Operating System: Kubuntu 22. I'm not sure that it is a Vivaldi problem. and while playing the video look for a “VA-API” string" inside the terminal. 24. Based on my tests, it broke avc, which affects Rumble directly. Video Hardware Acceleration has been broken for years, causing YouTube and Twitch to strain CPU, battery, and cooling fans. I actually only found this thread trying to determine what specific settings differ between Chrome and Firefox regarding hardware acceleration, and why Chrome fails to render so many streams while Firefox seems to have no issues. enabled true gfx. xmixahlx Pine Scholar. 264 at all: that’s the first thing you should check) If you have N-Vidia GPU, or 6th gen or newer Intel CPU, you should use VP9 since it is hardware accelerated. My config : i7 8550u (with uhd 620, latest driver) I can play the VP9 format youtube video smoothly for 1080p, acceptable for 1440p and slightly lag for 2160p by Google Chrome. in config. With updating to Firefox 117 and a new Intel VGA driver found on the Lenovo support web page, the problem is gone without the need for hardware acceleration disabled. I'm using a Fedora Linux (currently Firefox 85. You can place the following configuration in ~/. The appropriate 'bug' on Bugzilla reveals that the improvement is coming to Windows Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more. The latest news and developments on Firefox and Mozilla, a global non-profit that strives to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web. threshold greater than the value of media. Check which codec the stream is in by right-clicking video and choosing stats for nerds. Both have Intel CPU's with built-in HD graphics, neither supports VP9 hardware decoding, so I'm forcing avc1 codec (299) with enhanced-h264ify add-on on Firefox. Is there simply no VP9 support on Firefox android or do I need to install an extension as a fix Archived post. Hello. Sort by: VP9, or AV1, firefox consumes a significant amount of GPU/memory when playing videos at resolutions above 1080P, and this consumption increases the longer the Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated OpenGL: Enabled Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages Raw Draw: Enabled Skia Renderer: Enabled Video Decode: Hardware accelerated Video Encode: Software only. 264) Current graphics chips provide hardware acceleration for playback with the codecs H264 (AVCHD), H265 (HEVC), and VP9. enabled to false to disable the remote data decoder process for VP8/VP9. My hardware should There is an ongoing effort to enable hardware accelerated video playback on Firefox. This is not a new issue, I had this for several It does not occur when hardware acceleration is turned off. 💻 Help Hi all, I'm trying to make Firefox 115 ESR to HW accelerate VP9 decoding on Linux. enabled. Posts: 598. So no changes needed in firefox. I am using the Flatpak Version of Firefox on Manjaro Linux. Two years later, Mozilla is finally catching up with the same capability in Firefox. > 1- Let it use its default (since it appears you have a slow machine, it will > default to H264 that will use HW acceleration), or > 2- Wait I followed the wiki pages to get the hardware acceleration working in brave but can't seem to get it working. So you get 1080p60 option but not the performance of mp4. 1. It's hardware acceleration. So either hardware acceleration is disabled for some reason or you are being served AV1. 265 works media. Note that I'm using a GT 1030 which has VP9 hardware decode capabilities. This is super frustrating and you can bet that it makes some users move to Chrome. Hardware acceleration is broken in Firefox 102 for NVIDIA graphics. rdd-process. It happens on videos which use VP9 codec. 0 at the time of writing this). org This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Related Topics Firefox Web I got some 'Intel HW VA-API' initialising msgs from MOZ_LOG="PlatformDecoderModule:5" firefox-nightly while playing 4k vp9 youtube video. AV1 meant to be a successor to the VP9 codec developed by Google, without relying on Hello I am trying to track down what the current situation of VP9 Hardware acceleration is on Polaris GPU's (my RX 580). 04 KDE Plasma Version: 5. Noticed Firefox wasn't using HW decoding for h264 Youtube content anymore (I had to force that, because vp9 HW decoding stopped working for me some months ago). failed = true This tutorial shows how to enable hardware video acceleration (VA-API) for Firefox, so it uses the video card to decode/encode video to save power. Disabling the remote data decoder for VP8/VP9 process Turning off hardware acceleration h264ify-embed-fix extension still facing high CPU usage edit 2 The issue was solved by installing Enhancer for YouTube and using this option: Force the use of the MP4 format and the AVC codec (H. It seems that the latest update, from today, broke GPU hardware acceleration in Firefox. Here’s Firefox playing a 4K video after enabling VAAPI through about:config: And here’s Edge doing the same thing - note the severely higher CPU usage: Youtube served a VP9 I haven't tried the h264ify addon, because VP9 is supported by my card (and yours too I think) and is better quality than h264. ' means that i will be able to use firefox-decoding using nvidia? as in the 'Application support' it says firefox is only compatible with VA-API only ? I thought Firefox had VP9 HW acceleration support too, at least, I think it does. Maybe so. At least the Nvidia users will not get hardware acceleration on Firefox on Linux anytime soon. vp9. I used DXVA checker and that clarifies that there is some issue with VP9 and DXVA on my current card. This definitely seems like a Firefox issue and I hope I'm not the only one having it. Reply Edit: btw I hardware acceleration doesn't work well on Firefox. I'm using Debian Bookworm with X11 & openbox on Intel 12gen with iGPU. Enabled the flag for override GPU blocklist on Chrome flags. - I have set "Use Intel driver instead of DXVA2 hardware acceleration only works on Windows. Reply At a first glance, it looks like Firefox is initializing the FFmpeg VA-API decoder which apparently fails for firefox on the VDPAU configuration described above. Intel Kaby Lake and newer systems have full hardware decode of VP9, exposed on developer preview versions of Windows 10 through a there forcing the migration to vp9 as it's better for them. This seems to work fine for sites like YouTube, where Firefox is streaming videos. 264, since it doesn't support MSE with VP9. CPU load by Vivaldi and Firefox in h264 is identical - at least on my systems. Firefox currently supports hardware acceleration on both x11 and wayland. Step 2: Enable VAAPI hardware video acceleration in Firefox. 14, and launching YouTube videos via Piped as AVC/h. 4, with Edge Dev 116. I tried to research for this case on MX Linux forums and over the web, but haven't had much luck with finding an answer. Then, click ‘Accept the Risk and Continue Note that most videos that play on Firefox are already h. I tried closing Waterfox 53. 264 HEVC/h. ini I've been using Sandboxie for about 10 years, but it's been a while I (and my family) can't use it normally because it slows down our new laptops. rk3399 is currently dependent upon improved vaapi and v4l2 solutions for any media decoding to be utilized by chromium or firefox. As the screenshot shows, my GPU driver supports encoding (generate video) via H264 codec, and supports decoding (play video) MPEG2, H264, VP8, HEVC, and VP9 videos. 264). atsts blpepa jmkgu lqvtb gpsz wror wwn urkybm wkysshw jtf