Commits on Aug 25, 2020

1. firefox: Update version from 79.0 to 80.0 …

   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0/releasenotes/
   
   [Hardware accelerated video decoding with VA-API can now be used][1].
   Big thanks go to Red Hat to actually pay developers to work on that.
   
       $ MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox
       $ MOZ_X11_EGL=1 MOZ_LOG="PlatformDecoderModule:5" firefox
   
   Unfortunately, [the old AMD graphics card included by Dell do not support
   VP9 de-/encoding][2], so the add-on [enhanced-h264ify][3] can be used to
   work around that.
   
       inbetweenmove:~$ ssh donut lspci -nn | grep VGA
       05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] [1002:6611] (rev 87)
       inbetweenmove:~$ vainfo
       libva info: VA-API version 1.3.0
       libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
       libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
       libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_3
       libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
       vainfo: VA-API version: 1.3 (libva 2.3.0)
       vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 20.0.1 for AMD Radeon (TM) Pro WX 5100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.39.0, 5.9.0-rc1.mx64.342, LLVM 9.0.1)
       vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
             VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
             VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
             VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
             VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
             VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
             VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc
   
   [1]: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedora-finally-gets-va-api-on-wayland/
   [2]: https://www.notebookcheck.com/AMD-Radeon-HD-8570D.96579.0.html
   [3]: https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify

   

   pmenzel committed Aug 25, 2020
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