Enabling accelerated video decoding in Firefox on Ubuntu 21.04

WebRender (Software)

That’s your problem. Software WebRender is still software rendering. Hardware rendering (WebRender) is a prerequisite in order to use VA-API in Firefox. Try setting gfx.webrender.all to true and restart Firefox.

The arch wiki explicitly mentions this, unfortunately this guide did not. I would edit the guide but the edit button no longer shows up, probably because the post is old?

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