Run vainfo on terminal to verify that VA-API works.Install ffmpeg from RPM Fusion repository.Install libva, libva-utils, and libva-intel-driver packages.You can enable VA-API on Intel by these steps: Refer to this Intel chipsets video features table on Wikipedia to determine which codecs your hardware supports. Currently, Firefox works with either libva-intel-driver or intel-media-driver. There are two drivers for Intel cards, libva-intel-driver (provides i965_drv_video.so) and intel-media-driver (iHD_drv_video.so). Run vainfo on terminal to verify that VA-API works.Īccelerated video decoding works well on most Intel GPUs as free drivers are available.Install ffmpeg, libva and libva-utils from RPM Fusion repository.You can install H.264 VA-API support it by these steps: Free video formats (VP8, VP9, AV1) should be accelerated out of the box. You may install enhanced-h264ify Firefox extension to disable non-accelerated video formats.Īccelerated video decoding works well on AMD as free drivers are available. You can disable it at about:config page setting to false. If there's WebRender (software) you're on non-accelerated backend. If there's WebRender, you're running on hardware. You can check hardware acceleration state at about:support page, look at Compositing row.

You can check your hardware using glxinfo | grep 'profile version' for OpenGL and eglinfo | grep version for GLES. Please note that Firefox requires a GPU with support for OpenGL 3.2 or newer or GLES 3.0 or newer to enable hardware acceleration ( Source and further info). This guide is adjusted for Fedora only and may not work for stock Mozilla binaries or other distros.Īccelerated web page rendering is supported on both X11 and Wayland backends via WebRender. 1.2.2 Configure VA-API Video decoding on Intelįirefox on Fedora supports hardware acceleration on Linux so let's look how to configure it and diagnose potential issues.1.2.1 Configure VA-API Video decoding on AMD.1 Firefox Hardware acceleration on Fedora.

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