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rasz_pl on Sept 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extens...

just make sure your gpu supports accelerated h264 in all formats you are interested in (1080@60, 4K etc), otherwise Chrome will use its own internal SLOW AS CRAP unoptimized SINGLE THREADED software decoder which cant handle 1080@60 on 4GHz Haswell. While supposedly more cpu intensive VP9 plays just fine, Im sure its just coincidence.

guitarbill on Sept 30, 2016 [–]

Ha, I did not know this. I'm on a puny, 5-year old MacBook Air and h264 helps.

The new Raspberry PI desktop (PIXEL) includes Chromium with h264ify for hardware-accelerated playback! (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel/)

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