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Copper Contributor

Jan 25, 2020

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Support for HEVC / Netflix 4K

Hi, I wanted to ask if there are any plans for adding HEVC support to the new Chromium-based Edge. HEVC is e.g. required for playing Netflix in 4K which currently doesn't seem to work with the new E...

CZvasam
Jan 27, 2020
Iengelen I've just checked it and you're correct! It seems they fixed that literately today in the Canary channel (doesn't still work in Beta). I don't know what's happening but let's hope it'll stay that way.

When 4K doesn't work it streams AVC instead of HEVC and only 1080p. You can easily check that in A/V Stats (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + D).

CZvasam

Copper Contributor

Jan 25, 2020

HotCakeX Thanks for the confirmation. It's a bit shame that something that's being rolled out as a replacement for old legacy Edge drops one of its best features. Feels like a downgrade. More over when it's actually advertised on the official website - "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features".

Do you know if there are any plans for adding it in the future? It must be technically possible - the beta version around November actually supported HEVC.

HotCakeX

MVP

Jan 25, 2020

It did? it must have been version 78 or 79 at that time. doesn't make sense that it's now removed in version 81.

well the top feedback list is here: https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback
I don't see anything about it in it
you can send feedbacks through browser as well to emphasize