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YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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/

[–] Spotlight7573 13 points 8 months ago

Looks like it might be inferred by this:

https://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.

https://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.