Displaying video on a browser

A system for an accelerated rendering of a video on a browser comprising:

• a layout engine configured to identify a video layer that requires rendering;
• a video decoder configured to generate a plurality of bitmaps for updating a plurality of textures that make up a quad included in the video layer;
• a compositor configured to generate a set of rendering instructions, the set of rendering instructions including instructions for updating the plurality of textures;
• a memory storage configured to store the plurality of bitmaps in the plurality of textures and the set of rendering instructions, wherein the memory storage is a memory region accessible to components existing within a sandbox environment and outside of the sandbox environment;
• a graphics processing unit (GPU) processing module configured to retrieve the plurality of textures and the set of rendering instructions and associate the plurality of textures and the set of rendering instructions with at least one video shader;
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• a GPU configured to execute the at least one video shader to display the video included in the video layer on a webpage displayed on a display screen.

An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform operations for an accelerated rendering of a video on a browser, the operations comprising:

• identifying a video layer that requires rendering;
• generating a plurality of bitmaps for updating a plurality of textures that make up a quad included in the video layer;
• generating a set of rendering instructions for updating the plurality of textures;
• storing the plurality of bitmaps and the set of rendering instructions in a memory region accessible to components existing within a sandbox environment and outside of the sandbox environment, and wherein the plurality of bitmaps are included in the plurality of textures;
• processing the plurality of textures using the set of rendering instructions, wherein the processing includes compositing the video layer on a webpage;
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• displaying the video included in the video layer on the browser.