Okay, I checked under "chrome://flags" then (this is the part you may miss- click at the right side top "unavailable" you might be surprised to see a few entries about " WebRTC hardware video decod...
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Okay, I checked under "chrome://flags" then (this is the part you may miss- click at the right side top "unavailable" you might be surprised to see a few entries about " WebRTC hardware video decoding" and below it "WebRTC hardware video encoding".. With the killer: "Not available on your platform." on the far right of this fun little page. This is with my current Windows Chrome. This was not a problem for me a short number of days ago. And it was working great! Sorry to be conspiratorial, but the Chromium (open source Chrome) masters seem to be shutting down Chrome's hardware acceleration features for older chipset platforms like Intel 6th gen Skylake. Proof from chrome://gpu and I quote " VP9 decoding is too slow on Intel Broadwell, Skylake, and CherryTrail : 616318 Applied Workarounds: disable_accelerated_vp9_decode " Funny I used to decode hardware VP9 4k Youtube Stream without a hitch. How dare Google decide to degrade our experience because they think our hardware is too slow (when is isn't- at least not for what Stadia is throwing at us... Extra for experts: figure out how to re enable webrtc video encode decode; and also accelerated vp9- and let's spead the news!! post solutions here: RobertB. age 53, old as Yoda ps---Windows EDGE browser still at this writing works for STADIA- don't know how long it will last pps- get names and e-mail address of Stadia operations crew-- the may not know about these newly added limitations in Chrome!!