Dear Linux folks,

Just a small note, that Intel pushed patches for the Chromium browser for review [1] to use VAAPI [2] along with vaapi-driver to run all supported media use cases with hardware acceleration.

This will hopefully let GNU/Linux systems desktop to catch up further to Microsoft Windows systems, especially on mobile devices like laptops where this makes a difference in how long the battery lasts.

Unfortunately, Mozilla Firefox still lacks support for this too. Bug report #1210727 [3] has been open for several years. Maybe Intel is so kind to also do that work. ;-)

Thanks,

Paul

[1] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/532294 [2] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community/vaapi [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727