search

alextrv / enhanced-h264ify

A Firefox/Chrome extension that blocks video and audio codecs you have chosen on YouTube
MIT License
256 stars 16 forks source link

Inform users that VP9 may be hardware accelerated. #13

Open Poopooracoocoo opened 2 years ago

Poopooracoocoo commented 2 years ago

Inform users in the README or otherwise that VP9 (and AV1, among other codecs) may be decoded by their hardware

Users can check this in Chromium based browsers including Chrome by navigating to chrome://gpu and then going to the 'video acceleration information' and viewing the table of codecs that are hardware accelerated on the system.

There must be a way to do so in Firefox.

Some people recommend this to people unaware that newer processors may already decode VP9 and even AV1

jrmuizel commented 2 years ago

There's not a way to do this in Firefox yet. Ideally this add-on would just use the media capabilities API to detect what codecs were hardware decoded and expose those.