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Originally Posted by birdie
This announcement makes no sense: I don't know a single mobile SoC which supports AV1 HW decoding acceleration right now which means the poor users who will watch AV1 content will decimate their battery life.
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They note that they're using Dav1d and supporting development of 10-bit assembly speedups so that's what wil be used until hardware arrives.
Currently it's opt in, you need to flick the pre-existing switch that says you want to save data when watching on mobile. I assume most of the time this just reduced file size and therefore quality, but now they have the extra option of switching codec as well.
It would be nice if they'd run the numbers and publish them, but against the backdrop of mobile streaming and a phone screen fully on, I'm not sure the lack of hardware decode will be that noticeable. I think Instagram were already shipping a VP9 software decoder on Android I don't think they were even using the fast ffmpeg decoder, just libaom.