http://elinux.org/Tegra/Downstream_SW/Linux4Tegra/WebBrowsers/Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding
Motivation
- Video Acceleration is disabled by default in Linux Builds of Chromium.[1]
- Nvidia provides Gstreamer libraries for the Tegra K1 [2]
- Chromium doesn't support Gstreamer backend for media [3]
- Chromium supports VA-API and VDPAU libraries through the Hardware acceleration implementation called VAVDA. [4]
- Nvidia doesn't provide VDPAU libraries for the Tegra K1.[5]
- Notwithstanding all the above points, Acer 13 and HP 14 Chromebooks that shipped with the same SoC supported hardware accelerated video decoding.