AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.
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db2@lemmy.world 18 hours agoI don’t use it, I can’t speak to anyone else using it. If YouTube is sending it out that’s them using it. None of my files are that codec.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Waryle@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
AV1 is not an encoder. If you watch AV1 encoded videos, you’re using AV1.
tja@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
So you just don’t watch it in that case?
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, totally. 🙄