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-Accelerated video playback in NixOS is generally done by adding relevant packages to {{nixos:option|hardware.opengl.extraPackages}}.
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+Accelerated video playback in NixOS is generally done by adding relevant packages to {{nixos:option|hardware.graphics.extraPackages}}.
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-== Installation ==
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-=== Intel ===
+== Installation == <!--T:18-->
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+=== Intel === <!--T:19-->
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 {{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
 {
-   hardware.opengl = {
+   hardware.graphics = {
      enable = true;
      extraPackages = with pkgs; [
-       intel-media-driver # For Broadwell or newer processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
+       intel-media-driver # For Broadwell (2014) or newer processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
        intel-vaapi-driver # For older processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
      ];
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 }
 </nowiki>}}
-For 32-bit support, use {{nixos:option|hardware.opengl.extraPackages32}}:
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+Note, <code>intel-vaapi-driver</code> still performs better for browsers (gecko/chromium based) on newer Skylake (2015) processors.<ref>https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1024</ref>
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+For 32-bit support, use
+</translate> {{nixos:option|hardware.graphics.extraPackages32}}:
 {{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
 {
-   hardware.opengl.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
+   hardware.graphics.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
 }
 </nowiki>}}
-=== AMD ===
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+=== AMD === <!--T:4-->
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 AMD configuration (at least for Ryzen 5 iGPUs) works out of the box:
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 {{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
 {
-   hardware.opengl.enable = true;
+   hardware.graphics.enable = true;
 }
 </nowiki>}}
-== Testing your configuration ==
-You can test your configuration by running: <code>nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo</code>
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+=== NVIDIA === <!--T:23-->
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+NVIDIA do not officially support accelerated video playback on Linux. A third-party implementation exists, but does not support Chrome<ref>https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#chrome</ref>, and has significant limitations compared to the other implementations<ref>https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#codec-support</ref>.
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+NVIDIA users with a separate iGPU should generally prefer to use their iGPU for this, and therefore look to the above Intel and AMD sections instead.
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+Users with only an NVIDIA GPU can attempt to use the third party implementation; the package is added to <code>hardware.graphics.extraPackages</code> by default, but it requires some additional setup to be useful<ref>https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#configuration</ref>:
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+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
+{ config, lib, ...}: {
+  environment.variables.LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "nvidia"
+  # If used with Firefox
+  environment.variables.MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX = "1";
-See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Verification Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration] for more information.
+  programs.firefox.preferences = let
+    ffVersion = config.programs.firefox.package.version;
+  in {
+    "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" = lib.versionOlder ffVersion "137.0.0";
+    "media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled" = lib.versionAtLeast ffVersion "137.0.0";
+    "media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled" = lib.versionOlder ffVersion "97.0.0";
-== Applications ==
+    "gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled" = true;
+    "widget.dmabuf.force-enabled" = true;
-=== Chromium ===
+    # Set this to true if your GPU supports AV1.
+    #
+    # This can be determined by reading the output of the
+    # `vainfo` command, after the driver is enabled with
+    # the environment variable.
+    "media.av1.enabled" = false;
+  };
+}
+</nowiki>}}
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-See [[Chromium#Enable GPU accelerated video decoding (VA-API)]].
+== Testing your configuration == <!--T:6-->
-=== Firefox ===
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+You can test your configuration by running: <code>nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo</code>
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+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Verification Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration] for more information.
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+== Applications == <!--T:9-->
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+=== Chromium ===
+See [[Chromium#Accelerated_video_playback]].
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+<translate>
+=== Firefox === <!--T:11-->
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 See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#Firefox].
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-=== MPV ===
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+=== MPV === <!--T:20-->
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 You can place the following configuration in {{ic|~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf}}:
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 <syntaxHighlight lang=ini>
-hwdec=auto-safe
+hwdec=auto
-vo=gpu
-profile=gpu-hq
-gpu-context=wayland ; On wayland only
 </syntaxHighlight>
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 See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#mpv].
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 == Also see ==
 * [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration].
-* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware nixOS-hardware] contains example configuration for different hardware.
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VAAPI Gentoo Wiki#VAAPI.]
+* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware nixos-hardware] has example configurations for various types of hardware.
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+[[Category:Video]]