Hey there,

I’ve been using Firefox for ages now, and I was completely satisfied with it… until very recently, that is. For space-saving reasons, I started to convert my media library to H265, since all devices in my network support it now. Or so I thought. One very noticeable omission is my desktop PC with Firefox. Now, if I watch something from my local media server, the server has to waste resources to convert to H264, which is a noticeable performance hit to all other things running on the server. The GPU in my Desktop PC (or the CPU for that matter) could have displayed H265 without even changing clock speed from idle. So I tried to use the native Plex App for Windows for that, but that one does not support RTX Super Resolution which was really nice when watching old DVD stuff.

From what I can see, to get both, I need a Chromium browser. Since I would rather not have two browsers open all the time: Is there any browser based on the latest Chromium Builds that is not a massive insult to one’s privacy?

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Firefox can display x265. Do you use the flatpak version? If so, create a bug report.

If not, search for enable x265 on firefox and install the codecs.

Whats the log in plex?

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Holy… why the fuck would this be disabled? And why the fuck didn’t I find this information in the first place?!

To all wondering: change

media.wmf.hevc.enabled

To 1 in about:config, restart browser, done.

Thanks, mate

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The reason is software patents and asinine licensing for HEVC. Thank the greedy fucks in suits for that.

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So it can be implemented but not enabled? Weird shit, man

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Sounds like you had an XY problem

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Well, I thought I had ruled out X as solution, so I didn’t ask about it in the first place <insert hide the pain Harold here>

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That’s nice. Thanks for the link

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Story of my life. Fortunately, now that I’m older, I often catch myself and provide the context. But not always.

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