Hello.
I have an issue regarding video decoding on two AMD GPUs. One being AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) and the other, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (RADV NAVI23).
On Firefox 123.0.1 flatpak version I have H264 hardware decode acceleration but don’t have VP9 and AV1.
On Firefox 123.0.1 RPM version I have VP9 and AV1 hardware decode acceleration but don’t have H264.
This also happens in other flatpaks: mpv, celuloid, OBS…
Is anyone having the same issues?
AFAIK due to patent issues some hardware decoding/encoding is disabled for AMD cards.
Afaik for Flatpak this means having “Mesa-extra” installed, while for non-Flatpak this would require installing some specific packages from RPMFusion.
For the Flathub Firefox I would bet you are missing the Mesa runtimes, I’m pretty sure that is what you need for AMD.
matthew@fedora:~$ flatpak list --runtime
Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation
<snip>
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08.13 23.08 flathub system
i386 org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat.i386 23.08 flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.3.5 22.08 flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.3.5 22.08-extra flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.2 23.08 flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.2 23.08-extra flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.2 23.08 flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.2 23.08-extra flathub system
Intel org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 23.08 flathub system
i386 org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel.i386 23.08 flathub system
ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 22.08 flathub system
ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 23.08 flathub system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.2.0 flathub system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.3.1 flathub system
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Hello again, thank you both for the answers. I forgot about the patent issues that involves AMD and the H264 codec. However, I do have installed the Mesa-extra runtimes on flatpak. Here’s what I have:
Fedora Platform org.fedoraproject.Platform 39 f39 fedora system
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 22.08.21 22.08 flathub system
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08.13 23.08 flathub system
i386 org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat.i386 23.08 flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.3.5 22.08 flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.3.5 22.08-extra flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.2 23.08 flathub system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.1 23.08 gnome-nightly user
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.2 23.08-extra flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.1 23.08-extra gnome-nightly user
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.2 23.08 flathub system
Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.2 23.08-extra flathub system
ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 22.08 flathub system
ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 23.08 flathub system
i386 org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg_full.i386 23.08 flathub system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.2.0 flathub system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.4.1beta gnome-nightly user
Freedesktop SDK org.freedesktop.Sdk 23.08.13 23.08 flathub system
GNOME Application Platform version 45 org.gnome.Platform 45 flathub system
GNOME Application Platform version Nigh… org.gnome.Platform master gnome-nightly user
i386 org.gnome.Platform.Compat.i386 45 flathub system
Adwaita theme org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita 5.15-23.08 flathub system
Adwaita theme org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita 6.5 flathub system
KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 5.15-23.08 flathub system
KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 6.5 flathub system
KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 6.6 flathub system
QGnomePlatform org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform 5.15-23.08 flathub system
QGnomePlatform org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform 6.5 flathub system
QGnomePlatform org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform 6.6 flathub system
QAdwaitaDecorations org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QAdwaitaDecorations 5.15-23.08 flathub system
QAdwaitaDecorations org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QAdwaitaDecorations 6.5 flathub system
QAdwaitaDecorations org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QAdwaitaDecorations 6.6 flathub system
QGnomePlatform-decoration …g.kde.WaylandDecoration.QGnomePlatform-decoration 5.15-23.08 flathub system
QGnomePlatform-decoration …g.kde.WaylandDecoration.QGnomePlatform-decoration 6.5 flathub system
Telegram Desktop Webview Add-on org.telegram.desktop.webview 2.42.5 stable flathub system
DXVK org.winehq.Wine.DLLs.dxvk 2.3 stable-23.08 flathub system
Gecko org.winehq.Wine.gecko stable-23.08 flathub system
Mono org.winehq.Wine.mono stable-23.08 flathub system
I found this warnings in the Firefox “about:support”
HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING
default available
user force_enabled Force enabled by pref
env blocklisted Blocklisted by gfxInfo Bloqueado; código de falla FEATURE_HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING_DISABLE
HW_DECODED_VIDEO_ZERO_COPY
default available
VP8_HW_DECODE
default available
env blocklisted #BLOCKLIST_FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING Bloqueado; código de falla FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING
VP9_HW_DECODE
default available
env blocklisted #BLOCKLIST_FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING Bloqueado; código de falla FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING
DMABUF_SURFACE_EXPORT
default blocked Blocklisted by gfxInfo Bloqueado; código de falla FEATURE_FAILURE_BROKEN_DRIVER
BACKDROP_FILTER
default available
CANVAS_RENDERER_THREAD
default available
ACCELERATED_CANVAS2D
default available
H264_HW_DECODE
default available
AV1_HW_DECODE
default available
env blocklisted #BLOCKLIST_FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING Bloqueado; código de falla FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING
Is this relevant to my issue?
Does it help if you remove the mesa extensions from the gnome-nightly remote?
flatpak uninstall --user org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default
(Have it remove both 23.08 and 23.08-extra)
Hardware video acceleration was broken recently due to an overlooked change in mesa’s build flags. Despite being updated nightly, the extension in gnome-nightly seems to still be the old version, and flatpak will preferentially select an extension in the user installation.
I have a similar setup with flathub in the system installation and gnome-nightly in the user installation. I masked mesa in the latter:
flatpak mask --user runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08*
I’m only masking the current branch of mesa in case org.gnome.Platform//master starts requiring 24.08 before it’s available on Flathub.
