Chrome now supports hard-decoded HEVC
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I saw a news report today that Chrome now supports hard-decoded HEVC. And it seems that a non-professional team has added this feature.
My first thought was, why not the Vivaldi team?
Perhaps out of a preference for opera, I've always had high expectations of the Vivaldi team.
I really hope you guys can take your eyes off the shell and lead the browser again.
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@Arcticir I once put hevc in my tea, didn’t enjoy it particularly.
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@Arcticir HEVC is not free encoding and that causes trouble with patent holders.
If Chrome supports that, then Google pays money to get those licences for their browser. -
@Arcticir I guess, that "Google HEVC" is Windows-only.
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@DoctorG Seems to be full platform support, Chrome 106 is on experimentally, 107 will be on by default.
Seems to call the system's hard decoding scheme, e.g. Window is D3D11VideoDecoder, macOS is VDAVideoDecoder. seems that royalties are therefore not required.
I'm not a Chrome user, but this change seems to be getting a lot of attention.https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding
