"The new V76 is essentially the successor to Arm’s previous high-end video block, the Mali-V61, which was announced back in 2016. Understandably the world of video encoding and decoding doesn’t evolve at quite as brisk a pace as GPUs, so Arm generally only revises their video blocks at about half the frequency. ... this processor will not include any support for the upcoming AV1 codec. While the bitstream specification for the eagerly anticipated codec was released a couple of months back, the timing was unfortunately after Arm had already completed the V76 RTL (never mind the fact that the specification isn’t closed yet). So it’s going to have to be the next video block after the V76 before Arm can include AV1 decode support. ... The very high encoding requirements of AV1 also mean that even after a decoder ships in a phone, we’re unlikely to see a full-featured encoder in a phone any time soon."
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12835...k-video-future