Completed FR: Add HEVC decoding support for to Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge

[SikSlayer 249]

According to https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Dev-channel-build-77-0-211-2-is-live/m-p/745801#M6548

 

Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser, now supports HEVC decoding. This should allow it to direct play if support is added.

[Luke 42077]

The web app already has proper hevc detection that has been confirmed on other platforms, so ideally this is already done. For Edge, I know in the past it required you to have hardware that supposed hevc decoding.

[SikSlayer 249]

I tested it before posting and it didn't work at all. It was transcoded to H264.

 

Any logs/help you require of me I can provide.

[Luke 42077]

We'll allocate more time on it when that version of the browser gets to beta. The hevc check works fine on several other platforms. They may not have perfected it just yet.

[SikSlayer 249]

It's not a big deal for me, so I'll let it be for now. Just FYI.

[Luke 42077]

I assume you have a GPU that can decode hevc? I doubt they are supporting it in software. Also try different flavors, e.g. 8-bit hevc, 10-bit, etc. 

[SikSlayer 249]

Yes, I have a GTX 1060, I get HW decoding for HEVC normally.

HW decoding/encoding of codecs is a key bulletpoint when I buy video cards.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Are they requiring the HEVC Video Extensions for the MS store? (Don't know if applies to Chromium)

 

If I am reading this correctly, HEVC codec required.

 

https://winaero.com/blog/chromium-based-edge-to-support-4k-and-hd-video-streams/

Edited July 9, 2019 by Happy2Play