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diff --git a/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-features.qdoc b/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-features.qdoc index 66966d63e..157fab3d9 100644 --- a/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-features.qdoc +++ b/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-features.qdoc @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ \li \l{Drag and Drop} \li \l{Favicon Handling} \li \l{Fullscreen} + \li \l{Hardware Acceleration} \li \l{HTML5 DRM} \li \l{HTML5 Geolocation} \li \l{HTML5 WebSockets} @@ -204,6 +205,20 @@ Support for this feature was added in Qt 5.6.0. + \section1 Hardware Acceleration + + QtWebEngine tries to use hardware acceleration for rendering the content. It uses + \c OpenGL or \c OpenGLES APIs to execute rendering calls on the GPU. As a fallback, + software rendering is used whenever the hardware does not meet the required set of + OpenGL functionality. A user can check the current hardware acceleration state by + loading the \c {chrome://gpu} internal page. Moreover, the acceleration can be explicitly + disabled with \c {QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS} using the \c {disable-gpu} switch. + For example on Linux: + + \badcode + export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS=--disable-gpu + \endcode + \section1 HTML5 DRM \QWE supports viewing DRM protected videos if the \l{Widevine CDM} plugin has been installed. |