VAAPI not working on Firefox

[banjo]

@geminis3

. This setup used to work some months ago on Manjaro and Chromium with VAAPI used my iGPU flawlessly, now it doesn’t but Ubuntu derivatives do.

OK, so why not use chromium and wait for firefox sorting out problems ?

VA-API driver broken

I suspect, that most of the older vaapi configs and optimisations are overkill nowdays. You need a standart manjaro install (here, I can only vote for xfce as I have it on all my notebooks), chromium from the official repo, and a ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --disable-gpu-driver-workarounds --enable-accelerated-video-decode --use-gl=desktop Starting in Chromium 86, there will be support for VA-API when using the ANGLE gl renderer. Use the -…