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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by AnssiH on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:00AM (#20000608)
Chromium/Chrome does not support HW video decoding on desktop Linux:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

Patches exist to address it, though.

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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by techntoke on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:04AM (#20007374)
So you're saying it does support it, and is often packaged that way in Linux. Remind me how it doesn't support it again?
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Re:Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1... by breakingcups on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:34AM (#20021623)
Chromium won't take your bug reports on this feature.
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