It looks like Vulkan video decode has finally merged for Firefox 153

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021722

This *should* mean out of the box hardware accelerated video decode for Nvidia users without needing hacky third party translation to vaapi or weird permissions or any of that (no offense to the good work elfarto has done with that [workaround driver](https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver)).

This should also work with every major vendor including AMD, Intel, and any other vendor that implements a vulkan driver with vulkan video decode extensions even on arm as mentioned in the bug report. This could simplify things in the future with the potential of every GPU vendor on firefox just using vulkan video decode, even on Windows. One less bit of fragmentation to develop around.

It could even allow Nvidia video decode on the open source NVK driver in the future as they are working on Vulkan video for that as well. Media capabilities like encode and decode with nvenc and nvdec are among the top features that would keep many on the proprietary driver so any further vulkan video progress on that would be a great thing to boost the open source driver.

Now we just need chrome to do the same so that functionality extends to applications like discord and others based on chromium as well. It looks like [Nvidia was starting that work months ago](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Vulkan-Video-Chrome-Help) but with the [latest update from Google](https://issues.chromium.org/issues/324003973) a few weeks ago it appears they have seen no progress yet, which is disappointing.

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