> Your "old iPhone 7" probably wont even boot up now, let alone play 1080p AV1 video for more than 5 minutes.

None of your predictions came true. In fact, you were more than 24 times wrong about it.

My 10-year-old iPhone 7 with its 10-year-old battery and a small crack in the screen, hardware which was released before AV1 was released, did boot up. I charged it to 99%.

I downloaded a 4 minute music video. It's 1080p25 1609kbps AV1 video, 48khz 122kbps stereo Opus audio in an MP4 container.

Using VLC 3.7.2 (which uses dav1d for decoding AV1), I played the video continuously on repeat. It took 122 minutes for the battery to go from 99% to 20%. At 20% the phone switched to low power mode and kept playing the video.

I should have put it in low power mode the whole time. I'll try that next to see if it can go longer.

In the meantime, what we can conclude is that the iPhone 7 is mighty.

dav1d, most especially, is mighty.

petcat isn't.