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Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API
Anticipated for the April release of the Mozilla Firefox 137 web browser is finally supporting HEVC (H.265) video playback in an accelerated manner using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API).
Anticipated for the April release of the Mozilla Firefox 137 web browser is finally supporting HEVC (H.265) video playback in an accelerated manner using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). For the past ten months has been this support request to enable HEVC via the VA-API interface on Linux. This follows Mozilla having enabled accelerated HEVC playback under Microsoft Windows back with Firefox 120 using the Media Foundation Transform "MFT" library.
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