Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
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Mozilla Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, enabling GPU-accelerated video playback across platforms, expected in Firefox 153 in July.
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Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged
As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support forVulkan Videohas landed in the web browser!
Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn’t universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left toefforts like NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driverto layer VA-API atop NVIDIA NVDEC interfaces to enjoy GPU-accelerated video playback in Firefox. Smaller Arm/embedded graphics drivers also have been largely left out of the game in the VA-API space. But with Vulkan Video we are beginning to see more adoption and in a cross-platform manner.
Following recent activity in Firefox development,this bug reportopened three months ago over the lack of Vulkan Video support in Firefox was closed.
The Firefox 153 release due out in July will have Vulkan Video decoding support available. TheVulkan Video activity in Firefox Gitculminated this week with the work of NVIDIA engineer Tymur Boiko and Red Hat’s Martin Stransky.
Firefox 153.0 is expected for release on 21 July with this Vulkan Video support assuming no last minute issues.
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