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

AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would guess some Google devs have contributed to it.

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