Hardware video acceleration on Fedora

Browsers

Firefox

Apps

mpv

Add

hwdec=auto

to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

VLC

Use the VLC - Flatpak version from flathub, there’s a problem with vlc - rpm package - from Fedora main repositories1.

  • Install

    flatpak remote-modify --enable flathub
flatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC

  • Config

    Tools / Preferences / Input & Codecs / Codecs / Hardware-accelerated decoding / VA-API video decoder

    [!TIP] If VA-API video decoder doesn’t work, try VA-API video decoder with DRM.