Enable HEVC hardware decoding.

Category: Multimedia
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 107)
Intent stage: Shipped

Summary

Enables support for decoding HEVC video on platforms where hardware (e.g., GPU, media accelerator, etc) for decoding HEVC is available (Android 5.0+, macOS 11+, with supported hardware on Windows 8+ and ChromeOS).

Standards & signals

Specification: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265
Firefox: Negative
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: Strongly positive — Developed in conjunction with ByteDance and Intel.

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