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Settings for full video hardware acceleration for Firefox 103 on Debian 11 with Ryzen 5 5500U
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FirefoxHWAccel.md

Enable Hardware Video Acceleration with VA-API on Firefox and AMD GPU

Requirements

Tested with Firefox 103.1.

Use command vainfo to check supported codecs.

Use radeontop to check for AMD GPU usage.

Enable Wayland

Set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1.

Automatically enables hardware WebRender and EGL.

Change these settings in about:about

Enable VA-API: media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled true

Force hardware WebRender in case it's still disabled: gfx.webrender.all true

Force enable EGL in case it's still disabled: gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled true

Extension to block unsupported video encodings

https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/enhanced-h264ify/

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