Collabora recently announced its ongoing efforts to enhance the Chromium experience on embedded Linux devices powered by MediaTek Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). The company is focused on addressing "long-standing V4L2 gaps" to enable efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on these platforms. This work benefits both specific downstream products and contributes to upstream open-source projects. Collabora states that "As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream." This initiative aims to provide a seamless and performant user interface runtime, particularly for video processing, on MediaTek-based Linux systems.