[jjice]

If you check out the generation-codec table in that wikipedia article [1], under Broadwell (I believe that's the 5200U's generation name), it says there is support for AVC (which I believe is H264, I'm not a codec wiz), so that's a really good point. I'm not sure why I've consistently had issues with this on my machine then. I wonder if this is something with a configuration on Linux then?

Thanks for pointing that out. I've looked at this table before and payed attention to HEVC, not AVC, so I believe that's where my mistake came from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardwar...

[zerocrates]

AVC is H.264, yes.

Accelerated video decode is often disabled by default on Linux versions of browsers and can be quite dependent on versions of drivers/mesa/X-vs-Wayland/etc.