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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

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548 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 05 Dec 25 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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crazygringo ◴[05 Dec 25 00:58 UTC] No.46155545[source]▶
Wow. To me, the big news here is that ~30% of devices now support AV1 hardware decoding. The article lists a bunch of examples of devices that have gained it in the past few years. I had no idea it was getting that popular -- fantastic news!

So now that h.264, h.265, and AV1 seem to be the three major codecs with hardware support, I wonder what will be the next one?

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JoshTriplett ◴[05 Dec 25 01:01 UTC] No.46155569[source]▶
> So now that h.264, h.265, and AV1 seem to be the three major codecs with hardware support, I wonder what will be the next one?

Hopefully AV2.

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jsheard ◴[05 Dec 25 01:04 UTC] No.46155603[source]▶
H266/VVC has a five year head-start over AV2, so probably that first unless hardware vendors decide to skip it entirely. The final AV2 spec is due this year, so any day now, but it'll take a while to make it's way into hardware.
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kevincox ◴[05 Dec 25 01:17 UTC] No.46155715[source]▶
If it has a five year start and we've seen almost zero hardware shipping that is a pretty bad sign.

IIRC AV1 decoding hardware started shipping within a year of the bitstream being finalized. (Encoding took quite a bit longer but that is pretty reasonable)

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1. jsheard ◴[05 Dec 25 01:33 UTC] No.46155822[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding#Hardwar...

Yeah, that's... sparse uptake. A few smart TV SOCs have it, but aside from Intel it seems that none of the major computer or mobile vendors are bothering. AV2 next it is then!