{"id":48922,"date":"2026-07-14T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48922"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:01:53","slug":"firefox-is-adding-vulkan-video-decoding-for-nvidia-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48922","title":{"rendered":"Firefox is adding Vulkan video decoding for Nvidia GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img width=\"406\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kit-firefox-logo.webp?resize=406%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image\" alt=\"Firefox logo with a pleased face drawn on it, sitting on a purple background.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kit-firefox-logo.webp?resize=350%2C200&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kit-firefox-logo.webp?resize=406%2C232&amp;ssl=1 406w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kit-firefox-logo.webp?resize=840%2C480&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kit-firefox-logo.webp?zoom=3&amp;resize=406%2C232&amp;ssl=1 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\">Firefox is adding hardware-accelerated Vulkan Video decoding, saving Nvidia users on Linux the hassle of manually configuring the\u00a0nvidia-vaapi-driver\u00a0package. The change will be included in Firefox 153, out July 21, but it will not be enabled by default \u2013 not to start with. Instead, users will be able to flip a pair of preferences in about:config to try it out, with the awareness that there may be hiccups and edge cases (especially on devices with hybrid graphics, mentioned further down). Given that Nvidia GPUs are capable (understatement klaxon), I was surprised to hear that this didn\u2019t already work. Turns out, Firefox\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re reading Firefox is adding Vulkan video decoding for Nvidia GPUs, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox is adding hardware-accelerated Vulkan Video decoding, saving Nvidia users on Linux the hassle of manually configuring the\u00a0nvidia-vaapi-driver\u00a0package. The change will be included in Firefox 153, out July 21, but it will not be enabled by default \u2013 not to start with. Instead, users will be able to flip a pair of preferences in about:config [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,252,16,177,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-hardware","category-news","category-nvidia","category-vulkan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}