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Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-... by sprash on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:22PM (#22476551)
> Hardware video acceleration

All video players on X11 have VDPAU support since ages. This is a Firefox specific problem which could be solved more easy on X11.

> The fact that this will be officially supported by a major browser vendor on Wayland first should tell you something.

It just tells me that Mozilla/Firefox really doesn't care about Linux because it took them 14 years since VDPAU works reliably on Linux to implement it.

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Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-... by DCKing on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:34PM (#22476690)
Gnome Web, Midori, Falkon and Konqueror are browsers that only run on the "free" desktop, and don't support VAAPI/VDPAU either. Google built an entire OS based on Gentoo, and the desktop Linux build of Chrome doesn't support video acceleration either.

I think you should reconsider how easy it is to smoothly get an accelerated video buffer from a specific GPU component into an already heavily GPU optimized and dynamic web page. Web browsers have a lot more complicated graphics rendering problems to solve than VLC does.

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