This completely killed my Tegra K1-based chromebook. What good is a Google laptop with a full HD display, if it can't play Youtube videos in any resolution higher than 480p?
That would be very odd because YouTube definitely supports H.264 videos in higher than 480p resolutions. VP9 is only exclusively used for some formats/resolutions (e.g., HDR is VP9-only, I think).
It's been a while since I sold it, but it would just choke on anything 720p or higher.
this!
h264 is the most widely supported codec to decode in hardware, so the inclusion of a software decoder in the browser is kinda moot.