Chrome 107 is landing today with HEVC decoding support, despite pushback from Mozilla

[Vorastra]

Chrome 107 is landing today with HEVC decoding support, despite pushback from Mozilla

Google Chrome is finally adding support for HEVC (H.265) decoding with version 107 today. This is despite Mozilla saying that it plans to add no support for the modern compression format.

www.neowin.net

Google Chrome 106 arrived four weeks ago with lots of experimental features and deprecations, which means that it is time for the availability of the next major version of the browser. Chrome 107 seems to be a similar update in terms of the number of new supported APIs, but one interesting functionality this time around is support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).

 

[backstreetboy]

No thanks AV1 ftw!

 

[Vorastra]

No thanks AV1 ftw!

Won't be default for a while. GPU decode not ubiquitous.

Look how long it took just to enable HEVC decode by default.