Codecs Universal Blue comes with packages to enable hardware acceleration for codecs, ensuring smooth and power-efficient playback right out of the box. Background Hardware-accelerated codecs offload the work of video encoding and decoding from the CPU to specialized hardware in your computer, such…

The links are broken as mentioned by a previous commenter. Please fix them. HW acceleration seems like not working out of the box on a fresh installation of Bluefin.

Seems it is required to simply execute “Enable va-api” in ujust configure-nvidia, now I have non-zero dec usage in nvidia-smi dmon. Don’t forget about mozilla va-api flag in about:config too

Can’t seem to enable Video Decode HW in Firefox (AMD RX 550 GPU). Even with h264fy, or installing everyting needed / flags.

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LogXx May 29, 2024, 3:09pm 2

Link of firefox extra steps for nvidia users is broken, it says “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.”

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