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

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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