Hardware Acceleration on DevMindscapehttps://devmindscape.com/tags/hardware-acceleration/Recent content in Hardware Acceleration on DevMindscapeHugoen-usTue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hardware H.264 Decoding on Fedora 43 and 44 — The Fresh-Install Recipehttps://devmindscape.com/post/fedora-h264-hardware-decoding/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devmindscape.com/post/fedora-h264-hardware-decoding/<p>Fedora doesn&rsquo;t ship proprietary codecs — that includes the H.264 / H.265 paths most browsers and video apps reach for first. On a fresh Fedora 43 or 44 install you&rsquo;ll see Firefox falling back to software decode, <code>ffmpeg</code> refusing to handle MP4s, and <code>vainfo</code> listing only VP8/VP9/AV1.</p> <p>The fix is three commands.</p>