HW H264 implementation is ready for certain chips on Android and currently is still disabled by default with a flag.
We decide to enable it by default now, still behind a flag, since h264 is not the default codec in webrtc calls if apps don't promote it. So the impact will be under control if anything doesn't work out.
BTW: HW VP8/9 will keep disabled by default.
Comment 1 by braveyao@chromium.org
, Nov 11 2016