Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. And that news was very welcome: hardware acceleration + the modern web = better experience. VP8, VP9, H.264, and AV11 codecs are widely used, and modern GPUs (both integrated and discrete) have dedicated decoders to deliver smooth video streaming (Netflix, YouTube, etc), video calls, and cloud gaming (Moonlight, Xbox Cloud Gaming, etc) without impacting performance. With a beefy processor CPU decoding isn’t noticeable, but on lower-end devices it can be – the more a CPU is tasked with, […]
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