Last time I heard Fedora 37 will remove hardware acceleration for decoding video via VA-API. Not sure if there is a workaround yet, but I image it will be a deal breaker for many people.
The super ironic thing is that, after the Linux community preaching for so many years that "AMD works best with Linux, always buy AMD, f*ck Nvidia", only AMD users are affected by the axing of VA-API, as Nvidia and Intel have alternative/proprietary APIs for hardware decoding to fall back to which can be easily enabled out of the box, versus the "just works™" AMD users which are currently screwed by this.
I hope G.E. from the Nobara Project[0] will fix this and give us a great Fedora 37 spin with batteries included.
- mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
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??? They only removed hardware acceleration for patent-encumbered codecs...
And FYI the most popular streaming sites (Netflix, YouTube, PrimeVideo, etc...) all use royalty-free codecs (AV1, VP9) so won't be affected...