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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon elFarto

HEVC support

Open RobertoAlda opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

HI, i've succesfully make it work with H264,VP9 and AV1 accelerated by my hardware NVIDIA RTX 4000 ADA SFF. Now i would like to hw accelerated also HEVC files. I know that firefox does not support it beacuase of pattent resaons, but do you know any other custom fork of FIrefox that work with HEVC?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

RobertoAlda avatar Oct 02 '24 15:10 RobertoAlda

I'm not sure there are any forks of Firefox that support HEVC. You'll likely have to build it yourself, but I'm not sure what changes are needed to enable support for HEVC.

elFarto avatar Oct 19 '24 07:10 elFarto

Duplicate of #304

mirh avatar Oct 25 '24 12:10 mirh

This driver already supports HEVC and you can check with MPV: mpv --hwdec=vaapi hevc_video.mp4.

thesword53 avatar Jan 06 '25 21:01 thesword53

Firefox will soon support HEVC on Linux, with implementation currently tracked in bug 1894818.

alastor0325 avatar Feb 18 '25 23:02 alastor0325

This has been merged into Firefox 137 release notes, which is currently in beta. I think it should work out of the box with this driver.

dcelasun avatar Mar 04 '25 21:03 dcelasun

FYI, for the Snap version Firefox, hardware decoding for nvidia will still be not working, see bug 1949040.

alastor0325 avatar Mar 04 '25 21:03 alastor0325