Hardware video decoding working on intel 11th gen CPU/GPU Ubuntu 26.04 firefox snap except for AV1 decoding

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This has been discussed before (with more or less successful solutions):

What does it take to get video hardware acceleration?

With Ubuntu Plucky, what does it take (if it’s even possible) to get hardware accelerated video playback in youtube and google meet with the browsers: google chrome upstream deb chromium snap firefox snap On xorg, and wayland. Or is only one possible? I’m still hitting issues with wayland in plucky, but that’s a topic for another post. Last time I had that working was in Oracular, and that was after a lot of messing around with packages and different combinations. And IIRC it only worked in …

Enabling accelerated video decoding in Firefox on Ubuntu 21.04

In this past year there has been work to make Firefox hardware decode video on Linux. Ubuntu 21.04’s switch to wayland luckily makes this feature more accessible and easier to enable. Benefits: Hardware video decoding in Firefox greatly reduces CPU usage when watching video. This saves power, improves thermals and reduces fan noise, all while ensuring computer resources are more free to do other things while watching video. While the feature is not perfect, I have been reliably using it for …

You should definitely open a bug so it can be fixed …