[mort96]

I would have more faith in Raspberry Pi's own patched build of Chromium to do hardware acceleration properly on the Pi than I would have in Google's generic Chrome build.

[emilbratt]

But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.

[sstim]

If enough people ask Broadcom to do VA-API on their platforms getting that enabled on Chromium shouldn't be too hard. The caveat is that codec support is limited (no VP8/VP9/AV1).