Comment by onli

I think that will be great for old hardware. I have a very old Thinkpad R50e here where Youtube did not work properly in the browser, at least not above 240p iirc, but you could download the video and watch it with vlc. The difference was the hardware acceleration, and I specifically remember VA-API (together with a second acceleration API?) as coming up at my research back then and being disappointed the browser would not use it. So this could be a nice improvement for a wide range of old devices.