Warning: Experimental features ahead! By enabling these features, you could lose browser data or compromise your security or privacy. Enabled features apply to all users of this browser. If you are an enterprise admin you should not be using these flags in production.
Interested in cool new Chrome features? Read our blogs.Show an error message in the Cast/GMC UI to inform users when the network permission is rejected and Chrome's Cast feature is disabled. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
Enables logging of all messages exchanged between websites, Chrome, and Cast receivers in chrome://media-router-internals. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
The default is to allow hardware H.264 encoding when recommended for the platform. If enabled, hardware H.264 encoding will always be allowed when supported by the platform. If disabled, hardware H.264 encoding will never be used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
The default is to allow hardware VP8 encoding when recommended for the platform. If enabled, hardware VP8 encoding will always be allowed when supported by the platform (regardless of recommendation). If disabled, hardware VP8 encoding will never be used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
The default is to allow hardware VP9 encoding when recommended for the platform. If enabled, hardware VP9 encoding will always be allowed when supported by the platform (regardless of recommendation). If disabled, hardware VP9 encoding will never be used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
When enabled, the media base VideoEncoder implementation is used instead of the media cast implementation. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
When enabled, a text overlay is rendered on top of each frame sent while Cast Streaming that includes frame duration, resolution, timestamp, low latency mode, capture duration, target playout delay, target bitrate, and encoder utilization. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
Offers the AV1 video codec when negotiating Cast Streaming, and uses AV1 if selected for the session. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS
Offers the H264 video codec when negotiating Cast Streaming, and uses hardware-accelerated H264 encoding if selected for the session – Windows
Offers the VP8 video codec when negotiating Cast Streaming, and uses VP8 if selected for the session. If true, software VP8 encoding will be offered and hardware VP8 encoding may be offered if enabled and available on this platform. If false, software VP8 will not be offered and hardware VP8 will only be offered if #cast-streaming-hardware-vp8 is explicitly set to true. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS