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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: 0.001s | source
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ls612 ◴[05 Dec 25 01:12 UTC] No.46155673[source]▶
On a related note, why are release groups not putting out AV1 WEB-DLs? Most 4K stuff is h265 now but if AV1 is supplied without re-encoding surely that would be better?
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Dwedit ◴[05 Dec 25 01:28 UTC] No.46155781[source]▶
Because pirates are unaffected by the patent situation with H.265.
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ls612 ◴[05 Dec 25 01:30 UTC] No.46155800[source]▶
But isn’t AV1 just better than h.265 now regardless of the patents? The only downside is limited compatibility.
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phantasmish ◴[05 Dec 25 02:23 UTC] No.46156157[source]▶
I avoid av1 downloads when possible because I don’t want to have to figure out how to disable film grain synthesis and then deal with whatever damage that causes to apparent quality on a video that was encoded with it in mind. Like I just don’t want any encoding that supports that, if I can stay away from it.
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coppsilgold ◴[05 Dec 25 02:56 UTC] No.46156383{4}[source]▶
In MPV it's just "F1 vf toggle format:film-grain=no" in the input config. And I prefer AV1 because of this, almost everything looks better without that noise.

You can also include "vf=format:film-grain=no" in the config itself to start with no film grain by default.

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1. phantasmish ◴[05 Dec 25 03:16 UTC] No.46156493{5}[source]▶
I watch almost everything in Infuse on Apple TV or in my browser, though.