On 2025/01/09 00:27, Klemens Nanni wrote: > 8 янв. 2025 г. 18:26:37 Johannes Thyssen Tishman > <johan...@thyssentishman.com>: > > > Some web conferencing applications, like Webex or Jitsi-meet, require > > H264 hardware decoding to work, but in Firefox, this feature is disabled > > by default. > > Why? > > Can it not detect it at runtime or is there a reason to not use it? > > I am under the impression that you want to offload whenever possible.
This is presumably about whether the browser supports H.264 *at all*; using hw decoding presumably means that this is available even though there's no working software-only implementation (as long as a hw implementation is indeed available). If H.264 is not available, the site would need to detect and, if not present, presumably fallback to transcoding to a supported codec. I doubt any real world site will be providing hw resources to do this.
