Google added HEVC support in Chrome
On one hand, that&#x27;s great for anyone watching HEVC content in Chrome.<p>&lt;rant&gt;On the other, I&#x27;d prefer to not see further adoption of HEVC and instead see increased deployment of VP9 and AV1 wherever possible. Let MPEG-LA and the other HEVC patent pools+holders... well I&#x27;ll leave the rest to your imagination. Future looking, no one should even touch VVC&#x2F;H.266.&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;<p>Unfortunately the above rant does not address the gap in hardware support between HEVC and AV1 for efficient accelerated decoding. Codec support is a difficult game to balance. I&#x27;m hopeful that by the time AVC&#x2F;H.264&#x27;s patent pools fully expire later this decade we&#x27;ll all have moved on to newer and better (non-royalty patent-unencumbered) things.