Encode Accelerator Implementation Status

This document shows the status of Chrome Media Recorder usage of hardware accelerated capabilities on the different platforms and hardwares. Updated Feb 2018.

Encoder	Mac	Android	Windows	Linux	ChromeOs
H264	✔	✘ (1)	✔ (2)	✘	✔ (4)
VP8	✘	✔ (3)	✘	✘	✔ (4)
VP9	✘	✔ (3)	✘	✘	✘ (5)

(1) crbug.com/719024
(2) Available in Win8.1+ and Cr ≥ 58.0.3023.0 (crbug.com/590060)
(3) Cr ≥ M60.0.3088.0 (crbug.com/638664)
(4) Cr ≥ M65.0.3324.0 on ARM devices only (crbug.com/616659), not on Intel devices (crbug.com/794608).
(5) crbug.com/811912

Support in Chrome for hardware accelerate encoding in Chrome OS depends on the actual chipset; the following table is

Chipset	H264	VP8	VP9
Intel Atom (2014)	✔
Intel Broadwell (2014)	✔
Intel Atom (2015)	✔
Intel Skylake (2015)	✔
Intel Kabylake (2017)	✔	✔	✔
Exynos 5250 (ARM)	✔
Exynos 5420/5800 (ARM)	✔	✔
Tegra T124/T132 (ARM)	✔	✔
Rockchip 3288 (ARM)		✔
MediaTek 8173 (ARM)	✔	✔

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