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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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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Firefox for android supports extensions so could probably use youtube mp4 there. Not sure what other youtube frontends (if functional still since the crackdown) support changing the codec

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