The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC.

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver continues working out well for NVIDIA Linux users wanting to enjoy GPU video acceleration with Firefox on NVIDIA Turing GPUs and newer while running on NVIDIA's official Linux drivers. It's a great option at least until Firefox supports the likes of Vulkan Video.

The new NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 build also fixes a Firefox check on FreeBSD with that being another possible combination thanks to NVIDIA providing their official driver support there too.

This new release also deals with VP8 slice headers ingested by NVDEC but not used by VA-API and small markdown formatting issues. The VP8 slice header code should address green corruption issue seen in some VP8 content with this driver.

The new NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver release can be downloaded from GitHub .