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

submitted 8 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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[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago

But you can't just wait until every phone on the planet supports it.

The proper approach is simply to have the app check the hardware decode capabilities of the device and use the best option. Pretty sure that's what YT has always done for codec transitions in the past.

Forcing AV1 on devices without hardware decode will end up making users think their battery is starting to wear out, even with the better software decoder'