With AV1 hardware decode on mobile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...
I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...
In a recent development, Android system development manager Arif Dikici confirmed that the Play System update released in March 2024 has switched to VideoLAN’s open-source libdav1d codec, thereby ...
The launch of FFmpeg 4.0 gave many compressionists their first chance to test the new AV1 codec, which is included in experimental form. For the first time, you had a single encoder that could produce ...
Kishan is a technology writer with over five years of experience covering smartphones, headphones, wearables, and the Android ecosystem. He first fell in love with Android when he purchased his ...
Hardware decoding support is desirable, but software decoding of AV1 at HD resolution isn't *that* intensive. Watching a FHD AV1 encoded video on Youtube uses less than 10% of my Haswell 4790k on the ...
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