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A guide that teach you enable hardware HEVC decoding & encoding for Chrome / Edge, or build a custom version of Chromium / Electron that supports hardware & software HEVC decoding and hardware HEVC encoding.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2022-05-09 · latest 2023-10-30

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  1. Most devices can indeed most likely handle software decode of more common resolutions, codecs and bitrates. But I'd really hope they'd pick the one that won't suck up all the battery, so H264. This line of thought is supported by the fact…
    comment by Avamander · 2023-10-30 · in Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
  2. > The 'right' solution would be to just use system codecs for everything. Many apps need good implementations of image codecs. They just need to be implemented once by the OS vendor (or the toolkit on Linux). Windows has done this and is…
    comment by Avamander · 2023-06-07 · in Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support
  3. Chrome >= 107 enable hardware HEVC decoding by default https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
    comment by vvb2060 · 2022-10-27 · in Google added HEVC support in Chrome
  4. Bytedance employee worked to support HEVC https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128613...
    comment by fomine3 · 2022-10-25 · in Google added HEVC support in Chrome
  5. https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
    comment by wantguns · 2022-10-25 · in Google added HEVC support in Chrome
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    Chrome now has optional HEVC/h265 support
    story by dmm · 2022-08-24 · 0 comments
  7. We have finish the development of chromium hevc hardware decoding support on macOS/Windows this month, not sure when will this feature be embedded into chrome, but you can atleast try this link to download the prebuilt version:…
    comment by zhusidayoyo · 2022-05-20 · in Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?
  8. I think there are a few patches that can enable HEVC hardware decoding with chromium. Though I am a firefox user so I didn't test whether these patches works or not. https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
    comment by JDW1023 · 2022-05-09 · in Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?