| ▲ | breve 2 hours ago | |
> I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my iPhone. Sure you can. Install VLC on your phone and you'll be able to play the AV1 videos. Even the iPhone 7 released in 2016 can play AV1 video. Don't agonise over battery life. The dav1d decoder for AV1 is great: https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1cf7eti/av1_dav1d_play... https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1cg2wv4/dav1d_battery_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1cgyace/dav1d_battery_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1chpz2r/dav1d_battery_... | ||
| ▲ | monster_truck an hour ago | parent [-] | |
It's not just great. It's so good that even on much older android phones than the ones tested in those links the brightness of the screen has a larger impact. This is by design, so that even extremely dated smart tvs and etc can also benefit from the bandwidth savings. Fun fact: I can't say which, but some of the oldest devices (smart tvs, home security products, etc) work around their dated hardware decoders by buzzsawing 4k video in half, running each piece through the decoder at a resolution it supports, then stitching them back together. | ||