Hal-5700X@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoFirefox 115 releasedwww.mozilla.orgexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1232arrow-down1external-linkFirefox 115 releasedwww.mozilla.orgHal-5700X@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaremonobot@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoMost important for some of us Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux. Yey! Test it by starting intel_gpu_top and than playing video in firefox, if row “Video” goes over 0.0% it is working! intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 921/ 925 MHz; 38% RC6 1.78/10.41 W; 813 irqs/s IMC reads: 3883 MiB/s IMC writes: 1632 MiB/s ENGINES BUSY MI_SEMA MI_WAIT Render/3D 12.82% |████▊ | 0% 0% Blitter 0.00% | | 0% 0% Video 27.99% |██████████▍ | 0% 0% VideoEnhance 0.00% | | 0% 0% PID NAME Render/3D Blitter Video VideoEnhance 578 RDD Process | || ||███ || | 32431 firefox-bin |▊ || || || | 2301 elogind-daemon |▌ || || || | 4151 pcmanfm-qt | || || || | 4153 keepassxc | || || || | 4154 pasystray | || || || | 4521 slack | || || || | 6067 chrome | || || || | 29222 jcef_helper | || || || | Of course, you need second monitor, it goes down to 0 if video is not visible, since Firefox is not rendering it.
Most important for some of us
Yey! Test it by starting
intel_gpu_top
and than playing video in firefox, if row “Video” goes over 0.0% it is working!intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 921/ 925 MHz; 38% RC6 1.78/10.41 W; 813 irqs/s IMC reads: 3883 MiB/s IMC writes: 1632 MiB/s ENGINES BUSY MI_SEMA MI_WAIT Render/3D 12.82% |████▊ | 0% 0% Blitter 0.00% | | 0% 0% Video 27.99% |██████████▍ | 0% 0% VideoEnhance 0.00% | | 0% 0% PID NAME Render/3D Blitter Video VideoEnhance 578 RDD Process | || ||███ || | 32431 firefox-bin |▊ || || || | 2301 elogind-daemon |▌ || || || | 4151 pcmanfm-qt | || || || | 4153 keepassxc | || || || | 4154 pasystray | || || || | 4521 slack | || || || | 6067 chrome | || || || | 29222 jcef_helper | || || || |
Of course, you need second monitor, it goes down to 0 if video is not visible, since Firefox is not rendering it.