HDR video support is coming to Chrome for Android soon

A couple of devices these days support HDR, though not many apps do. YouTube, Netflix, and Google Play Movies are among those apps that can handle HDR playback, and one more may soon be joining them: Chrome. This information comes courtesy of two commits that were recently spotted on Chromium Gerrit. These first commit demonstrates that Chrome for Android will be able to "tak[e] the VP9 HDR metadat a from the video container and [pass] it to MediaCodec." The second says it'll be able to "set color space and HDR metadata in android.media.MediaFormat," or in plain English, played back if the device supports it. Read More HDR video support is coming to Chrome for Android soon was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default