I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried searching through google and all the answers don’t seem to work. When I use Firefox (this is librewolf but it’s the same on Firefox), games like Tetr.io or Friday Night Funkin lag real bad but they’re buttery smooth on Chrome or Chromium. I have an iGPU and a “Cedar” AMD GPU according to lspci. Someone please help me, I don’t wanna use Chromium just to get good performance. Please tell me if I need to provide more information.

  • Comexs@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Firefox Hardware video acceleration

    If hardware video acceleration is blocked with error code FEATURE_HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING_DISABLE or FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_TEST_FAILED in about:support, you can override it with media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled=true. See [10] for more information. Alternatively, you can install firefox-vaapiAUR.

    Also make sure that in about:support Compositing in the Features table under Graphics is set to WebRender if it is not than set gfx.webrender.all in about:config to true.

    I had the same issue but I have a NVIDIA gpu. but I just had to install libva-nvidia-driver and edit Kernel parameters and Environment Variables . I got this to work with both Firefox and Librewolf but only some video codecs.

    note i have 1080ti so i don’t have hardware acceleration for av1. also the only time a problem when I turn off hardware decdoing on firefox is when I watch a HEVC stream on twitch for some reason i get drop frames every second.

    Firefox V137.0 Linux

    Codec Name Software Decoding Hardware Decoding
    H264 Supported Supported
    VP9 Supported Supported
    VP8 Supported Unsupported
    AV1 Supported Unsupported
    HEVC Supported Supported
    AAC Supported Unsupported
    MP3 Supported Unsupported
    Opus Supported Unsupported
    Vorbis Supported Unsupported
    FLAC Supported Unsupported
    Wave Supported Unsupported

    Librewolf V136.0.4 (HEVC decoding is only add support on Firefox 137.0 on linux)

    Codec Name Software Decoding Hardware Decoding
    H264 Supported Supported
    VP9 Supported Supported
    VP8 Supported Unsupported
    AV1 Supported Unsupported
    HEVC Unsupported Unsupported
    AAC Supported Unsupported
    MP3 Supported Unsupported
    Opus Supported Unsupported
    Vorbis Supported Unsupported
    FLAC Supported Unsupported
    Wave Supported Unsupported
      • Comexs@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I sure you have but have you tried checking the out put of vainfo Arch wiki since Firefox only supports Hardware acceleration with VA-API.

        • theselfhoster@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago
          libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit```

This is what I got, I still dunno what it means.
            • theselfhoster@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              According to fastfetch it’s a “Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd gen core processor”

              When I tried to run “LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 firefox” it spat out “restorecon: SELinux: Could not get canonical path for /home/[myusername]/.mozilla/firefox//gmp-widevinecdm/ restorecon: No such file or directory.”

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I don’t understand why this stuff isn’t enabled by default on Linux, it’s such a detriment to new users when super basic features don’t work out of the box.