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nvidia-vaapi-driver reviews and mentions

• nvidia-vaapi-driver question for the System76 team
  1 project | /r/pop_os | 23 Nov 2023

  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)

• nvidia-vaapi-driver v0.0.11 released
  1 project | /r/linux | 9 Nov 2023
• Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023

  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...

• Ubuntu is slower than windows and it is really hard to use hardware acceleration
  4 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 30 Jun 2023

  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

• Harwdware decoding is broken with latest Nvidia proprietary drivers (v535)
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 26 Jun 2023

  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

• Youtube dropping frames on Bullseye.
  1 project | /r/debian | 28 May 2023
• DEAR UBUNTU…
  5 projects | /r/linux | 28 May 2023

  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.

• Video playback lagging in everything but VLC
  1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 5 May 2023

  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

• Friend: What do I need to know if I want to try Linux? Me:
  2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 21 Apr 2023

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

• Gnome Web 44: leaps and bounds
  4 projects | /r/gnome | 12 Mar 2023

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

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