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>>Charle+(OP)
Wow. To me, the big news here is that ~30% of devices now support AV1 hardware decoding. The article lists a bunch of examples of devices that have gained it in the past few years. I had no idea it was getting that popular -- fantastic news!

So now that h.264, h.265, and AV1 seem to be the three major codecs with hardware support, I wonder what will be the next one?

>>crazyg+C6
That's not at all how I read it.

They mentioned they delivered a software decoder on android first, then they also targeted web browsers (presumably through wasm). So out of these 30%, a good chunk of it is software not hardware.

That being said, it's a pretty compelling argument for phone and tv manufacturers to get their act together, as Apple has already done.

>>alex_d+zL
This is something that infuriates me to no end - companies forcing software decoding on my devices rather than shipping me a codec my device supports.

When I'm watching something on YouTube on my iPhone, they're usually shipping me something like VP9 video which requires a software decoder; on a sick day stuck in bed I can burn through ten percent of my battery in thirty minutes.

Meanwhile, if I'm streaming from Plex, all of my media is h264 or h265 and I can watch for hours on the same battery life.