When I play a video from odysee.com on LibreWolf it uses 2-3x the cpu that Brave does to play the same video. It also turns on the fans in my laptop which signals overburden. My laptop has plenty of power so I"m wondering what the problem is. Have I missed a setting or is this just how LibreWolf works?
HW accel should be automatic on targets that support it (x86, AMD, Apple). I run on a #RaspberryPi4 target which is #Arm64 and doesn’t support it “yet”. The fix has been checked into git so next release will fix it on Firefox and LibreWolf. In your case though, if Firefox is working then LibreWolf also should.
I’d ask @librewolf if they have any ideas why it wouldn’t work. The Google turned up this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comments/11isnra/how_to_enable_hardware_acceleration/