Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users

johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is not a very helpful article summary.

  Sorry it wasn’t meant to be. I just thought it was funny that they’re taking advantage of VideoLAN’s library (which is presumably open source) rather than their own.

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  • DaGeek247@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are and it is. This was anounced two months ago, though i didnt find any articles about google paying for or directly contributing to videolan for the use of it.

    https://www.androidauthority.com/android-update-av1-videos-3420418/

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    • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like it might be inferred by this:

      www.videolan.org/projects/dav1d.html

      About

      dav1d is a new open-source AV1 decoder developed by the VideoLAN and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.

      aomedia.org/membership/members/

      Founding Members:

      • Amazon
      • Apple
      • Cisco
      • Google
      • [etc]

      It is good that Google is acknowledging that a decoder made by someone else is better than their own by switching to it though.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would guess some Google devs have contributed to it.

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