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by shakna 3347 days ago
Not sure what you mean by that.

It's true that Chrome/Chromium don't support it. [0]

Linux itself certainly supports it [1], and at least Mozilla have some progress towards it happening [2][3][4], if slow progress.

However, we used to have hardware video decoding via gstreamer and VLC within Firefox as plugins, using VAAPI and NPAPI, so it's still possible to get working today.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563206

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729

[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726

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Right, this explains why my laptop has been running at a steady 85c the last few days, back to chrome for a bit then.