QtWebEngine/VideoAcceleration

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