According to the submission information of Gerrit, an open source code review software, Chrome for Android will support a big move - playing HDR videos.

Chrome for Android can "extract VP9 HDR metadata from the video container and pass it to MediaCodec", or use methods such as "setting color space and HDR metadata in android.media.MediaFormat" to play HDR videos decoded through VP9 Profile 2 on Android phones that support HDR.

Although there are not many HDR resources at present, the author has used Galaxy Note8 to watch HDR videos on YouTube and Netflix, and the effect is very obvious. The performance of color and contrast is excellent. I believe that in the next year, more mobile phones will support HDR. However, it should be said that few users use the Chrome browser on their mobile phones to watch videos for a long time, and most of them watch videos directly in the movie app.

BTW：S8/S8+、LG V30、 Sony Xperia XZ Premium and other mobile phones support HDR.

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