NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver is an open-source independently-developed project that implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface so that software like Mozilla Firefox can enjoy video hardware acceleration on Linux using NVIDIA's proprietary driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver-0.0.11

[Rovano]

Excelent!
I am curious about the NVDEC effective compared to the CPU.

[Monsterovich]

No one even mentions the name of the driver developer/maintainer - the great El Farto.

[nyanmisaka]

Sadly NVIDIA does not have a power-saving video hardware acceleration method in Linux. NVDEC will invoke CUDA and force the GPU into a higher power state. This project only maps the NVDEC interfaces to VA-API so it cannot solve the problem. Notebook users are better off using the VA-API in iGPU to watch videos. There is one exception, VDPAU, but it has been almost deprecated due to lack of application support.

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/issues/74

[dimko]

Firefox lost its roots. It became woke, and lost its focus on being alternative browser which supports many various hardwares/OS/drivers.
Anything that becomes woke sooner or later turns into shit.

[juxuanu]

Firefox lost its roots. It became woke, and lost its focus on being alternative browser which supports many various hardwares/OS/drivers.
Anything that becomes woke sooner or later turns into shit.

Take your pills before posting on the Internet.

[dimko]

I am amazed though that they implemented language translation into latest versions of Firefox, that did not dial google.

[dragonn]

Notebook users are better off using the VA-API in iGPU to watch videos.

Notebook/laptop users will be always better of using the iGPU for video decoding, often even keeping the dGPU active at idle does use more power then just running software encoding on the CPU.

[skeevy420]

Children, libtard alert.

Their love to DRM, their pocket suggestions have propaganda in them, their denial of good extensions all in the name of 'user security', they are practically a year old version of google chrome. Everything chrome does, firefox does year later, whenever good or bad.

You post like a libertarian so that phrase works for you, too.

Still no native python support. Their extensions use their own language that no one knows. Their private tabs are a joke. Where cookies and session information leaks from one tab to another.

Add-ons allow developers to extend and modify the functionality of Firefox. They are written using standard Web technologies - JavaScript, HTML, and CSS - plus some dedicated JavaScript APIs.

JavaScript, HTML, and CSS are languages that no one knows?

Their private tabs are a joke. Where cookies and session information leaks from one tab to another.

Your bug is my feature. I use private tab sharing as part of my workflow. Spacebar heating.

[reba]

Your bug is my feature. I use private tab sharing as part of my workflow. Spacebar heating.

Why not both? Open a new private window to isolate cookies, etc, from other private tabs/windows.