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

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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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[-] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

I'm still looking for something to replace my shield TV tube. I don't believe that has AV1 support.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Android added software-based AV 1 decode yesterday so the Shield could support it with an update.

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