1 (edited by Blackfyre 19-02-2020 18:42:10)

Topic: Netflix and AV1

As you guys must have heard already, Netflix is pushing for AV1 encoded content on Android. Now that's almost useless information, but this bit from the reddit thread I found interesting:

Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d) built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media. Here we have optimized dav1d so that it can play Netflix content, which is 10-bit color. In the spirit of making AV1 widely available, we are sponsoring an open-source effort to optimize 10-bit performance further and make these gains available to all.

Netflix is sponsoring an effort to make AV1 10Bit performance better. Could this be helpful in any way for us using SVP?

Re: Netflix and AV1

SVP likes it better when your whole CPU isn't used just for decoding the video so yeah it's good for SVP, if you plan on watching 10 bit AV1 videos.