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octolith
Sep 16, 2019Copper Contributor
HDR videos unavailable on computers supporting HDR video streaming
Hello, My laptop supports HDR video playback, but only that, out of the three options available in Windows 10, see below: The old Edge has been supporting the playback of HDR YouTube videos o...
HotCakeX
Sep 17, 2019MVP
Yes i also assume app support is a requirement for browsers because they are an app. I'm not sure how classic Edge handled it but apparently Chromium is not compatible.
do you happen to know which piece of hardware in your laptop is the bottleneck ?
do you happen to know which piece of hardware in your laptop is the bottleneck ?
octolith
Sep 25, 2019Copper Contributor
HotCakeX I'm not sure which part is the bottleneck, but if I had to guess, I would say that it's the GPU. It's a laptop with integrated components:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-7600U
- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
- Display: integrated HDR capable display
However the old Edge could clearly do HDR streaming and thus I consider this a regression. It would be great if the new Edge team brought the necessary changes to the new browser.