Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Chromium Browser |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
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Medium
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chromium-browser (CentOS) |
Unknown
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Unknown
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Nathan Teodosio | ||
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a Meta Bug for GPU accelerated video decoding on Ubuntu/Linux browsers.
We will close this bug when most browsers will have Va-api decoding working OOTB without user interaction like in WinOS and MacOS
January 2024:
- Quickest answer : Install firefox Flatpak https:/
activate VAAPI with the flag media.ffmpeg.
- Snap : Test in Progress
- deb from mozilla : not tested.
August 2022 :
* Ubuntu 22.04 : Launch firefox snap on Intel Tiger lake -> Check with intel_gpu_top that no codec are GPU decoded ( either VP9 , H264 or AV1 )
-> change media.ffmpeg.
-> AV1 hwdec does not work in Firefox or VLC , but does with MPV . We need to fix this as most youtube is AV1 now.
* In july 2020, things are getting better :
- Chromium :
A patch is used on most distro packages. , more info here https:/
- Firefox :
Firefox team has done a great job and now Va-api decoding in Wayland is possible and X11 is possible in nightly !
Follow it here : https:/
* In 2015 I opened this bug , no easy solution was available and battery drained when playing video in browser was crazy.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Chromium does not use the GPU to decode videos + Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: kivu performance |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3
There should be a feature that enables HTML5 video to use GPU acceleration so this will take stress off the CPU. It should work on Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora, etc, and it should work with all graphics cards including onboard video.
Reproducible: Always