[mcpackieh]

One has basically nothing to do with the other, but I'll humor your attempt to draw a connection and say that if I had to choose between Firefox having GPU video decoding and IBM/RH not trying to subvert the GPL, I'd choose the latter and forego video acceleration. This is to say, the former does not make up for the latter even if I humor the existence of a connection.

Besides, I'm still going to play videos in mpv anyway. In-browser players suck for various other reasons besides the acceleration/performance issue. The bare-bones vanilla in-browser player has virtually no features and controls cannot easily be remapped. Firefox's floating video player feature is a nice step in the right direction, but only a tiny step. Furthermore the video controls implemented by websites like youtube are even worse and fixing that on a per-site basis would be a huge chore. I'll give you a specific example: my laptop's universal volume keys are my F1, F2, and F3 keys and they're right next to my 1, 2, and 3 keys. In the control scheme youtube has implemented, if I ever miss my volume keys I jump the video back to 1:00, 2:00 or 3:00 because youtube for whatever reason thinks number keys should be shortcuts to seek to that minute mark. I guess some people probably like this but I certainly do not. I could try to fix this by injecting scripts into the youtube page, but that's a hassle I can simply avoid in the first place by using a video player that has mostly sane defaults and makes configuration straight forward besides. I'd rather configure mpv once then play wack-a-mole fixing numerous websites and keeping those fixes up-to-date and working.

[robertlagrant]

Hi - I said well done Mozilla and they let me know who did the work. I don't see why you're saying anything you said here.