A pinned topic no one reads? A blog post no one reads? No matter how this is done - users will keep asking the same question again and again - it is almost inevitable.
All I keep hearing (seeing/reading) is demands that Manjaro make mesa hardware accelelration possible - and that is impossible for the time being.
Perhaps you can pursuade a @Manjaro-Team member with blog posting permissions to post an official statement explaining the situation.
I notice there’s an AUR package for obs-studio-amf, yet I’m sure most users would prefer to avoid AUR alternatives when software already exists in the official repositories.
I think a systemd that has no gpu acceleration is usefull. Only that. Not for mine desktop but yeah for my laptop. So… or AMD implements something in the free open soucre intel-like area or manjaro for me is a nope. I have tested to install chaotic aur mesa among another packages needed but it almost broke my system, a newbie could be yet searching how to fix it… so for me is not an option continue here.
OHOHOH wait, may be an “unnoficial” repo it’s ok, right? i think i’m gonna add your repo to my system so I have this mesa version with support… if it can be added to pacman that may be not. I’ll give a try in some moment
obs amf can be the fix to obs side, but… mpv and firefox are a no-no for a laptop…
I mean, for what red hat has increased the vaapi support in firefox if after is disabling from mesa the support…
Okey, it’s true, it’s only for mesa side…
AMD pls, make something like intel XD
Make “official-unofficial… definitely UNofficial” drop-in mesa replacement binary with relevant flags and codecs present and post it into AUR? By a … fan, that is not officially on Manjaro Corporation payroll.
Have been using AUR mesa-git for a while now, but it can be complicated for newer Manjaro users, Because often times llvm conflicts, needs long compilation time on weaker computers and other stuff that might happen with complete 3rd party AUR packagers.
OBS, firefox, any chromium based browsers and any media players, all use the dependence ffmpeg by default, not mesa. ffmpeg is only a solution for record, stream audio and video and offers any different video codec API (e.g. VAAPI, AMF etc…) as its option-parameter.
I knew ffmpeg should work well with AMD AMF in my testing.
However, it lacks a “custom fixed global configuration” feature of ffmpeg for all media applications or I’m missing something.
But all media applications automatically define the “wrong” video codec API for ffmpeg by themselves.
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I read a bit that ffmpeg refuses to support hardware video decoder for AMF.
(wishful thinking out loud) now the next step would be formatting the nix site there as pacman repo, that someone willing could add manually to pacman conf
While on the subject of patents – is the patents Manjaro is officially afraid of only for hardware accelerated codecs? I mean… Manjaro still ships software with software codecs and still plays them… are they not affected by those patents? Also how exactly are the hardware accelerated codecs from mesa for intel GPUs and such still OK to ship? How exactly is this any different?
firefox y chromium supports vaapi, not amf, I have been researching a bit. No matters if ffmpeg or whatever you want, firefox uses vaapi, anything more. Nor nvdec nor vdpau, nor nothing, only vaapi, so pls, stop telling me amf option until it get an actually option
I think this mesa package depends on mesa, so youll have to install too the mesa packages for that support. And not only that, you have to do it manually always. An unnoficial repo is the only way to go in the short future at least, my opinion.