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Xiaogang Li edited this page Oct 14, 2022 · 2 revisions
  • Install media driver following Build media driver from source code
  • Install firefox if you don't have.
    Hardware accelerated video decoding is available on Intel via VA-API, it's enabled by default since firefox-101.0.1-4.
    For test purpose, install h264ify extension which makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.
    Then play video in YouTube to check if hardware decoding worked.
  • Install intel-gpu-tools which can help to check if hardware decoding is enabled.
$ sudo apt install intel-gpu-tools
$ intel_gpu_top

Following is an example, if have workloads in Video engine, then hardware decoding works. image

Note: If hardware decoding doesn't work, you can try to set media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enable = true in about:config.

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