It is your moral obligation to use Firefox

Post by yoasif_ » Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

Avamander wrote: post #26

Make GPU acceleration work, 1080p YouTube videos play under Linux and I'll consider it.

Post by yoasif_ » Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

Avamander wrote: post #62

yoasif_ wrote: post #61

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Have you set `layers.acceleration.force-enabled` to `true` in about:config? It may help.

Last I tried enabling that FF just started freezing randomly after, WebGL was still much slower than Chrome's and had artifacts, YouTube still didn't play 1080p smoothly. It just didn't work and reading the issue tracker they have no proper plans to fix all the acceleration issues under Linux either.

Post by Avamander » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

yoasif_ wrote: post #63

Avamander wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I tried enabling that FF just started freezing randomly after, WebGL was still much slower than Chrome's and had artifacts, YouTube still didn't play 1080p smoothly. It just didn't work and reading the issue tracker they have no proper plans to fix all the acceleration issues under Linux either.

That is too bad. What distro are you on? What version of mesa are you using?

Post by Avamander » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

dusted wrote: post #54

Avamander wrote: post #26

Make GPU acceleration work, 1080p YouTube videos play under Linux and I'll consider it.

had 4k video work just fine under linux in firefox for as long as youtube has had 4k videos

Post by Avamander » Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 12:17 PM UTC

nacs wrote: post #68

Avamander wrote: post #66

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If you have the CPU power to waste then maybe yeah, it plays, but it's not possible with my hardware.

My video is definitely hardware (GPU) accelerated. If you don’t have working hardware acceleration in Firefox for videos/WebGL, there’s something wrong with your setup, it’s not a FF problem. I and many others in this thread have no issue with this in FF.