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Is it a firefox/chrome problem, or a hardware/driver issue?

To my knowledge, webm hardware acceleration designs has only been available to hardware manufacturers since around 2011. I also could not find a open mozilla bug ticket regarding hardware acceleration.

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Because they're already done.

Windows: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922314

Android: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986381

Linux supports HW decoding via gstreamer, if you have gstreamer set up to use your hardware (this can take some work).

Hardware/DSP/driver issue. Nokia was on the complaining side when others tried to get VP8 assigned as the video tag default codec, because they had multiple products in circulation that only supported H264 decoding in hardware.

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