[ChuckNorris89]

I have the same concern and it's a major one for me. I don't like to switch to distros that destroy such basic QoL functionality as HW decode and turn your laptop into loud battery draining stovetop when watching a Youtube tutorial, without also providing a quick and easy workaround. And I have not found any quick and easy fix on how to revert this (all search results for me yield just threads of people being annoyed with this decision rather than solutions) which is why I'll be staying away from vanilla Fedora for now despite being a favorite distro of mine. Worse, my other favorite distro, OpenSUSE, will follow suit on this, despite being a EU company not affected by the US SW patents issue.

The super ironic thing is that, after the Linux community preaching for so many years that "AMD works best with Linux, always buy AMD, f*ck Nvidia", only AMD users are affected by the axing of VA-API, as Nvidia and Intel have alternative/proprietary APIs for hardware decoding to fall back to which can be easily enabled out of the box, versus the "just works™" AMD users which are currently screwed by this.

I hope G.E. from the Nobara Project[0] will fix this and give us a great Fedora 37 spin with batteries included.

[0]: https://nobaraproject.org/

[mroche]

I believe these should be covered by RPM Fusion now, via the following packages:

- mesa-va-drivers-freeworld

- mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/mesa-freeworld.git/