In a recent development, Android system development manager Arif Dikici confirmed that the Play System update released in March 2024 has switched to VideoLAN’s open-source libdav1d codec, thereby ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

Google is switching to libdav1d for AV1 video decoding on Android. The new development was officially confirmed by Arif Dikici, a member of the Android Video and Image Codecs team. The company even ...

Despite its rise, AV1 isn't the go-to standard for video services yet. Many Android smartphones and tablets lack dedicated hardware to decode AV1 videos, so they resort to using a software decoder ...

As part of its unveiling of the new iPhone 15, Apple has revealed the phone’s new A17 pro chip will support AV1 video via a “dedicated AV1 decoder”. The dedicated decoder enables more efficient, ...

I just looked, and the NVidia 3000 series GPUs apparently have AV1 hardware decode support. If you can actually find one of these unicorns, your computer should handle it fine. I imagine it will take ...