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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: 0.218s | source
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Eduard ◴[05 Dec 25 01:06 UTC] No.46155627[source]▶
I'm surprised AV1 usage is only at 30%. Is AV1 so demanding that Netflix clients without AV1 hardware acceleration capabilities would be overwhelmed by it?
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FrostKiwi ◴[05 Dec 25 01:11 UTC] No.46155662[source]▶
Thanks to libdav1d's [1] lovingly hand crafted SIMD ASM instructions it's actually possible to reasonably playback AV1 without hardware acceleration, but basically yes: From Snapdragon 8 onwards, Google Tensor G3 onwards, NVIDIA RTX 3000 series onwards. All relatively new .

[1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d

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1. jeffparsons ◴[05 Dec 25 02:37 UTC] No.46156252[source]▶
It's possible without specific hardware acceleration, but murderous for mobile devices.