Would this mean that you can encode the Chrome windows itself and send it off over the network to be decoded by, well, anything that decodes H.264, possibly another Chrome window's decoder?
interesting that there's an encoder built in as well.<p>wonder if they will start offloading youtube video compression onto client machines pre-upload.
I'm excited for this simply because it means you can have a fully client side in browser youtube downloader. With things like youtube-dl, you need ffmpeg to combine the higher bitrate streams if you're downloading anything 1080p and above. Most downloaders offload to a server to handle this, but it always bugged me when I had to do that.