Currently, there are a number of use cases where CopyOutputRequests are made to get "snapshots" of arbitrary Layers in the layer tree. Note that this is NOT the same thing as surface video capture. Such CopyOutputRequests are needed to support features like screenshots on CrOS (see bug 706246 ), the screenshot extension API, the Android tab switcher UI, and the New Tab Page thumbnails, among others. Therefore, this is VIZ launch blocking!
This issue is blocking "Option 3C" discussed in bug 806366 .
Successful resolution of this bug means that, when --enable-features=VizDisplayCompositor is used on ChromeOS, CTRL-F5 on the desktop will successfully capture a screenshot.
Comment 1 by m...@chromium.org
, Jan 26 2018