Submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-google-av1-codec-android-video/
Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.
This is not a very helpful article summary.
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.
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/
I would guess some Google devs have contributed to it.
Reminder that all libaom versions are named after My Little Pony characters. Anytime you watch a video encoded in AV1 you are consuming My Little Pony content
Oh no…?
How can I test if my phone uses hardware decoding for AV1?
apps like play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parseus… (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/…/com.parseus.codecinfo) show whether or not you’ve got it, on my samsung galaxy note 20 ultra I’ve got software only :(
According to this, my OnePlus Open has hardware av1 decoding. That’s pretty cool.
Let me save you some time, it doesn’t. I have no idea what Google is thinking, very few phones have it right now.
My Pixel does. 🤷🏼♂️
Youtube has multiple format streams (vp9, avc (mp4), av1) by default. So frontends choose the one supported and good.
I’m still looking for something to replace my shield TV tube. I don’t believe that has AV1 support.
Android added software-based AV 1 decode yesterday so the Shield could support it with an update.
Are they still using Mp3 for audio or have they switched to something more modern for that too?
Pretty sure they use opus
They’ve been using opus for probably around a decade at this point, and in fact YouTube was a pretty early adopter of it and had a large role in popularizing it
Opus and AAC
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Because they can’t use hardware decoding.
Which is fair, but AV1 isn’t new any more, and it’s pretty universally recognized as better.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Hardware decoding is the whole point. Hardware support is notorious for lagging greatly behind software. Desktop support is not great either right now. It makes you wonder what Google’s reason is, they have to be aware that must people won’t be able to use it properly.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I know hardware decoding is the point. But you can’t just wait until every phone on the planet supports it.
Their reason is that it’s a massively better format.