I could have sworn they did this already
I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.
They don’t have mkv support by the way, that won’t ever work in Firefox. Are you sure you’re not trying to play mkv files?
Of course I am, there’s no way I can escape mkvs. It’s not too bad if it doesn’t have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue 😭
Could be wrong, but it’s not about working but rather that it is now enabled by default.
Which may haven’t been the case, I suppose?
This is like the 6th time they’ve claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn’t working correctly.
Weird, it’s been working for me for a while. I just need to manually set “media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled” to true in about:config.
Weird, it’s been working for me for a while
That’s strange, I’m almost certain my desktop’s Firefox doesn’t have this (AMD GPU) while my laptop’s Firefox does (Nvidea GPU)
I just need to manually set
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabledto true in about:configOK yeah that’s something 99% of even Firefox users aren’t going to know… Bookmarking this to try when I’m back home!
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What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.
It’s been working fine since a couple years ago on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration
Firefox on android keeps turning it’s “Data Collection” options on. I’m no longer able to trust it. The company is starting to show signs of rot.
Really? Turned them off a long time ago, never seen it changing (checked now too just in case)
Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it’s still off (also just checked)
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Aren’t those browser settings and not user settings? I see your point and maybe those should be user settings, but saying that “Firefox on android keeps turning it’s Data Collection options on” is misleading
Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??
Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
mpv, yt-dlp or FREETUBE, although yt-dlp now works better with cookie export from a browser. mpv is life.
Dude watch ascii converted videos in terminal
kind of, mpv
How else you watch stuff?
mpv
Just for local files or is there a way to use like Netflix through it?
mpv can play youtube and many other videos from video hosting services through yt-dlp but it can’t play DRM content like Netflix or Spotify MPV also can play video from TTY so you don’t need graphical interface like xorg or wayland to play videos
what is a video?
Sent from my Linux.
