nvidia-vaapi-driver VS AssetStudio

For anyone wondering, I got hardware acceleration working (NVIDIA 1660 Super: h264, vp8, vp9, don't know why I can't get HEVC support currently) using the nvidia-driver-545 using the steps from nvidia-vaapi-driver to build from source (version: 0.0.11)

I don't think it's your fault and I don't think you're using the wrong browser.

> I should be working out the dependency story and compiling some driver from Github myself.

no, nvidia _should_ make it easier for people using the 3rd most popular desktop OS to use their hardware. It would make them more competitive against AMD and Intel, which both support hardware video decoding.

That's probably not going to happen, so the next best option is to install a package from the package manager [0]. There might be some kind of compilation needed, but in my experience that's rarely an issue (aside from time), especially if it's coming out of the package manager for a popular distribution.

> It's just not a real option for maybe 99% of PC users.

well, 99% of PC users with Nvidia hardware. It's an important distinction since this problem is specific to Nvidia. If the solution is to installing a package from the package manager, it's only as difficult as installing the browser in the first place.

I do agree there's some extra questions that may make things difficult, or unfamiliar for the vast majority of people, though. Like how is someone supposed to know they need the nvidia-vaapi-driver package anyway?

[0] - https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#package-manag...

to be honest, pop os solved most of my problems except the hardware acceleration problem which seems like an issue with Nvidia. I am planning to try this soon. https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/ as mentioned in the comments

RpmFusion only has v0.0.9 of nvidia-vaapi-driver although release v0.0.10 adds support for Nvidia drivers v535. https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/releases/tag/v0.0.10

I do have one machine with the Firefox PPA rather than the snap, and that's because I've got an NVIDIA card in it and want to use an experimental library.

Note that as an nvidia gpu owner you need to do some extra backflips to make firefox use hardware decoding such as installing a custom vaapi-to-nvdec translation driver: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

General VDPAU vs VA-API video acceleration pains. Needing a community driver for imperfect VA-API support, that nvidia updates have broken multiple times.

Don't use VDPAU, this driver is much better: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

Asset Studio for browsing and previewing files, Avalonia for replacing/editing bundles. Of course, I've never actually modded RF5; all I've managed to get working so far for RF3s is portrait and model texture editing, and face textures are so tightly cropped that replacing them might be a pain. As for dialogue, the extracted .txt comes out garbled, and I tried it with Grimoire just for fun but that doesn't seem to do anything.

the sprites won't appear as actual images unless you are using something to load the sprites like AssetStudio or a similar program. unfortunately i can't remember the name of the program that allows you to take a screenshot and rip assets from there, or something similar. but AssetStudio will do the trick and you have to load the folder called "hollow_knight_Data" from - C:\(yournamehere)\steamapps\common\Hollow Knight\hollow_knight_Data - some of the information here will vary based on what you've named your drives but the main folder is in steamapps\common\HollowKnight\hollow_knight_Data

I've tried exploring a few things with this but the only sound file I was able to find was the one that plays on the startup screen. I think I might have another lead with the files that steam displays but I'm doing my best and if worse comes to worst I will just try to get recordings of everything :]

Yes, you can use a tool like asset studio to find and extract the wrap textures

Hi, I'm the person who made priconne-image-extractor. If you're looking to decrypt .unity3d files from the EN server, you can use that to get all the .unity3d files from EN's CDN, and then use AssetStudio (https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio) to load the folder with all the .unity3d files. This won't work anymore for JP's server since they updated Unity a while ago, but in theory this should work for EN still.

You can dig the audio files yourself from the game data with Asset Studio. I can get it for you, but it'll have to wait until I get home. I advice you try to dig yourself. Might find many cool things in there.