Enable GPU Video Decoding in Firefox - Reduce CPU Usage and Save Power

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How to enable video acceleration on AMD GPUs in Linux.

The "mesa-va-drivers-freeworld" package may have a different name depending on the distro:
Arch: libva-mesa-driver
Ubuntu/Debian: mesa-va-drivers.
Fedora: needs the freeworld version because of codec license conflicts.
Void: mesa-vaapi

Xorg .xprofile:
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi

Wayland envvars.conf:
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

firefox preference:
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled

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