How To Deal With Poor Html5 Video Performance In Chrome?

Over a year ago we added an video page on our site. At the time OGV wasn't very good, and there was no good WebM encoders available, so we decided to use HTML5 and h.264 for webkit

Solution 1:

This is the flag I mean. If the flag is disabled, the browser tries to use hw-accelerated video decoding, which I can grant provokes wrong and slow video renderization in some devices. If enabled, hw-accelerated video decode is never used, but the above mentioned problems disappear. It theorically increases decoding time in devices actually able to use such acceleration, but I've been working around this field for almost a year and I still didn't realize any difference in that matter. Still didn't get to know how to identify if a device will behave properly (the availability of this feature doesn't seem to grant its proper behavior) with such acceleration without testing, though.