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

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548 points CharlesW | 3 comments | 05 Dec 25 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.305s | source
1. aperture147 ◴[05 Dec 25 04:04 UTC] No.46156735[source]▶
AV1 is not new anymore and I think most of the modern devices are supporting them natively. Some devices like Apple even have a dedicated AV1 HW-accelerator. Netflix has pushing AV1 for a while now so I thought that the adoption rate should be like 50%, but it seems like AV1 requires better hardware and newer software which a lot of people don't have.
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2. smallstepforman ◴[05 Dec 25 05:13 UTC] No.46157044[source]▶
Dont forget that people also view Netflix on TV’s, and a large number of physical TV’s were made before AV1 was specced. So 30% overall may also mean 70% on modern devices.
3. brnt ◴[05 Dec 25 12:40 UTC] No.46160498[source]▶
> AV1 is not new anymore

Uh what. (Embedded) hardware lasts a long time (and it should!). TV's around the globe are not all built after 2018. H264 is still the gold standard if you want to be sure a random device has hardware acceleration.

I make use of this by taking a USB hard drive with me on trips. Random TV's rarely have issue with my H264 catalogue. It'll be a while before I look at AV1 for this. Sure, I wish I could benefit faster, but I don't want people to throw out perfectly good hardware either!