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YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

One one hand av1 has some great advantages and this will force some lagging OEMs to add hardware support

On the other hand snake ass google already split encoding into premium qualities, so they're just gonna set the "free" bitrate so low it may as well be H264.