Chromium evangelist François Beaufort announced today that accelerated video decoding and encoding capabilities landed in the chrome://gpu page in the Chrome Canary experimental channel.
François Beaufort is always teasing Chromebook users with the latest features, and today he posted a message on his Google+ page that accelerated video decoding and encoding capabilities are now available in the internal chrome://gpu page in Chrome Canary.
It appears that the functionally works if you set profiles for various of the supported video codecs by Chrome OS, which can be decoded and encoded through hardware acceleration if your Chromebook is supported, which many of them are.
“For info, video compression standards (h264, vp9, etc.) define a set of capabilities also known as profiles (h264 main, vp9 profile 0, etc.) that can be decoded and encoded via hardware acceleration,” said François Beaufort on the <a href="https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/BFZ79UYMm… (read…
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