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Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by michaelmrose on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:29PM (#38616273)
Virtually all arm devices do GPU decoding they kind of have to.

This was a well understood problem in the 80s if two sides need to establish a commonality one offers options and the other picks. Google controls both YouTubers and the most common browser making it uniquely positioned to handle this well.

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by monocasa on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:37PM (#38616361)
Eh, there's pretty famous examples that don't.

For instance, the RPi5 cut out the H.264 decoders versus previous gens, and now only do H.265 decoding in hardware.