So I noticed deplorable battery life watching youtube et al in browser. Went down the rabbit hole to figure out why.
It occurred to me that hardware video decoding (intel quick sync) should be working, which should save precious battery. With standard intel device drivers I proved that hardware video acceleration works with vlc and intel-gpu-tools (using intel_gpu_top, quick sync isnt working if there is nothing under video% ). Curiously, neither Firefox or Chrome have working hardware video acceleration.
which lead me here…
and here…
and here…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
I am currently using Fedora 35. I have proven that OpenGL works with glxgears. I have set flags as needed in chrome and firefox to no avail (I now understand, firefox lacks the correct implementation to use the Intel Xe graphics). I am not opposed to using another supported distro, was going to test with Ubuntu 21.10 later.
I ask, has anyone else gotten any browser video acceleration working? If so what distro and what setup?
will crosspost to r/framework on reddit…