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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by techntoke on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:18AM (#20000073)
Well at least Chromium has support for this. I don't know why it is taking Mozilla so long honestly, but I'm guessing most of their developers don't use Linux and the org just loves to virtual-signal and not practice what they preach.
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by AnssiH on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:00AM (#20000608)
Chromium/Chrome does not support HW video decoding on desktop Linux:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

Patches exist to address it, though.

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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by techntoke on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:04AM (#20007374)
So you're saying it does support it, and is often packaged that way in Linux. Remind me how it doesn't support it again?
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by breakingcups on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:34AM (#20021623)
Chromium won't take your bug reports on this feature.
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by bwat49 on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:55AM (#20000229)
google refuses to support this on desktop linux though, it requires a patched chromium build. The only reason vaapi support is there at all is because their chromeOS uses it.
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by techntoke on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:04AM (#20007377)
I used Chromium and it is very easy to use on Arch. Not sure why you act like it isn't supported. A lot more than what is available for Firefox.
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by bwat49 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:42PM (#20015811)
because it isn't supported, just look at the comments from google employees on the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440...

sure the situation is better than it is with firefox, but having to use a patched chromium build isn't exactly ideal

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