Android welcomes dav1d, the best AV1 software decoder. It’s official! All Android devices back to Android S received this new codec over the air.

Mountain View's platform will integrate dav1d, the AV1 decoder written in assembly by VideoLAN for the VLC media player. According to Dikici, dav1d is the "best" software AV1 decoder available today.

Android currently ships with the libgav1 AV1 decoder, but a future update will switch that to libdav1d, which offers much better performance.

Google’s Open Source AV1 Decoder. The Android Open Source Project has included the open-source AV1 Video Codec libgav1 developed by Google since the release of Android 10.However, VideoLAN’s ...

This Google-developed decoder is an alternative to libdav1d and is integrated into the Android SDK. Following the arrival of libdav1d on Android, libgav1 will remain the default AV1 software decoder.

AV1 is supposed to make streaming better, so why isn’t everyone using it? Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical limitations might be holding it back.

A Qualcomm representative has suggested that the company will skip AV1 encoding or playback in favor of the new VVC standard. ... MediaTek, and now Qualcomm all offering AV1 decode/playback support.

AL-D301 is Allegro DVT’s LCEVC decoder IP core which provides support for the LCEVC video format. It operates in combination with a base layer decoder, decoding the LCEVC enhancement layer ...

Recently, Apple announced that its iPhone 15 Pro and Max, as well as its new M3 desktop processor will include an AV1 decoder. At first glance, this seems like a significant leap forward for AOMedia, ...

Anyway, Apple added a AV1 decoder on M3 and later, but no AV1 encoder, so the only option in HandBrake for Mac is SVT-AV1. Reactions: ballet_ld, stevenkan, continuum and 2 others ...

And the Vision Pro’s M2 chip has no AV1 hardware decoder, so that’s out, too. Why not 1080p, he asks? Because it looks like doo-doo. Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno ...