QtWebEngine/VideoAcceleration

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Qt WebEngine does not currently support hardware accelerated decoding of videos.

Introduction

- What is video acceleration and do you really need it? Could you use a proprietary solution?

- To off-load CPU, especially important for embedded devices

- Needs to be supported by GPU hardware and drivers, usually only supporting some encoding

- Link to Chromium docs on video acceleration

Platforms

  • Linux: Video acceleration (VA) API, gstreamer, and proprietary solutions
  • Windows: directX API
  • macOS: ?

Qt WebEngine

- patch in Qt 5.10 (?) for Chromium 60

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