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--- general:firefox [2020/11/27 11:28] – sunkan
+++ general:firefox [2025/03/13 07:12] (current) – sunkan
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 ====== HW video decoding using VAAPI ======
+For it to work with firejail one needs to ignore ''noroot''.
+~/.config/firejail/firefox.local:
+<code>
+# Allows HW video decode
+ignore noroot
+</code>
+===== Update 2022-02-05 =====
+As of now it seems that it is working with RDD enabled (tested with Firefox 96.0.3)
+Only these two options need to be set on my AMD machine to enable it.
 <code>
-MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox
+gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled	true
+media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled	true
+</code>
+If needed disable av1/av01 codec if there is no HW decode support (YouTube may use this with 1080p otherwise)
+This can of course affect media at other sites.
+Note that av1/av01 is NOT the same as avc1
+[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZUlNUQAVLwrZS|AV1 Beta playlist]]
+<code>
+media.av1.enabled = false
+</code>
+vainfo from AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics
+<code>
+vainfo: VA-API version: 1.10 (libva 2.10.0)
+vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 20.3.5 for AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-11-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)
+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
+      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
+      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
+      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
+      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
+      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
+</code>
+==== To check if HW decoding is active ====
+On newer AMD
+<code>
+while true; do cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info | grep ^VCN; sleep 1; done
+</code>
+On Intel - check for Video engine activity
+<code>
+intel_gpu_top
+</code>
+===== Old information =====
+https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683808
+https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199
+<code>
+MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox # Not needed anymore as there is option gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled
+gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled = true
 media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true
 media.ffvpx.enabled = false
 gfx.webrender.enabled = true
+Possibly disable use of av1/av01 (YouTube uses this with 1080p otherwise)
+media.av1.enabled = false
+There are now also new settings for separate rendering process (RDD)
+Have not fully understood yet what needs to be set.
 MOZ_X11_EGL=1 MOZ_LOG="PlatformDecoderModule:5" firefox 2>&1 | grep 'VA-API'
+To get better log why VAAPI is disabled run Firefox with:
+MOZ_LOG="Dmabuf:5, PlatformDecoderModule:5"
+</code>
+===== Checking if HW decoder is active =====
+==== AMD ====
+Check if "uvd" is enabled. UVD stands for Unified Video Decoder
+<code>
+watch -n '0.1' cat '/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info'
+or
+watch -n '0.1' cat '/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info'
 </code>
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 === Tested workaround (as in turning off acceleration) ===
 media.ffvpx.enabled = true
+====== Using Telavox web based SIP phone with FF ======
+===== Need to spoof the user-agent to include "Chrome" =====
+Install [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/|User-Agent switcher]] \\
+Then add this to the "Custom Mode" configuration
+<code ecmascript>
+{
+  "app.telavox.com": "${userAgent} Chrome"
+}
+</code>
+===== Now you also need to manually enable accepting calls =====
+This is due to [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59131286/how-to-check-if-the-permission-to-access-microphone-has-been-rejected-by-the-use|microphone permisssion not queryable]]
+First make sure that you have allowed persistent access to microphone. \\
+Then add the value registerSoftphone:"true" to the "Local Storage" for https://app.telavox.com
+If you then go to "Settings | Phone and audio" you should see that "Receive incoming calls" is now enabled.
+====== Arkenfox ======
+===== Custom overrides =====
+<code>
+/* override recipe: enable session restore ***/
+user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3); // 0102
+  // user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", false); // 0110 required if you had it set as true
+  // user_pref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level", 0); // 1003 optional to restore cookies/formdata
+user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.history", false); // 2811 FF127 or lower
+user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.historyFormDataAndDownloads", false); // 2811 FF128+
+/* 2812: set/enforce clearOnShutdown items [FF136+] ***/
+user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.browsingHistoryAndDownloads", false); // [DEFAULT: true]
+// 2820 optional to match when you use settings>Cookies and Site Data>Clear Data
+  // user_pref("privacy.clearSiteData.historyFormDataAndDownloads", false); // FF128+
+// 2830 optional to match when you use Ctrl-Shift-Del (settings>History>Custom Settings>Clear History)
+  // user_pref("privacy.cpd.history", false); // FF127 or lower
+  // user_pref("privacy.clearHistory.historyFormDataAndDownloads", false); // FF128+
+/* 2611: disable middle mouse click opening links from clipboard
+ * [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/10089 ***/
+user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", true);
+</code>