10mo ago

Mishaal Rahman: Google confirms that Android is switching to VideoLAN's libdav1d decoder for AV1 video playback!

androiddev.social Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)

Attached: 1 image Google confirms that Android is switching to VideoLAN's libdav1d decoder for AV1 video playback! I first reported back in February that Google plans to roll out a Play System Update that enables libdav1d as Android's default AV1 software decoder. Yesterday, Arif Dikici, Software...

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As an average user... Should I be excited?
- On my phone the difference is literally the video being unwatchably slow with Google's AV1 decoder and perfectly fine with VLC's
  
  I legit can't tell a difference lol, but I'm excited anyway
  
  Maybe you just have a faster phone than me or your phone has hardware decoding for AV1
- If you have an older or low to some midrange phone, then you might get better performance watching some videos.