birkskyum’s #15697 lets mpv and Chromium use the video hardware on Snapdragon laptops instead of decoding on the CPU. Other ARM boards await testing; existing hwdec and ANGLE choices remain respected.
birkskyum reports tests on a Yoga Slim 7x: CPU use for 1080p playback was about one fifth in mpv, while Chromium used about 20% of one core instead of 50–60%. These are the author’s results from one machine, not independent benchmarks. birkskyum also describes a migration for existing installs.
The change merged into the quattro development branch on 17 October at 03:01 UTC. This does not establish availability in a stable release.