It's worth noting that Chrome Remote Desktop uses VP8 (which is the video codec used in WebM): http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-step-in-chrome-os-jo

It's worth noting that Chrome Remote Desktop uses VP8 (which is the video codec used in WebM): http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-step-in-chrome-os-journey.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-step-in-chrome-o... If you're having performance issues with it, you just have the video codec tuned wrong.