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On the one hand this is great, it's hard to argue that it isn't a good thing to have a very fast CPU-based AV-1 decoder built into Firefox. On the other hand,
by w0utert 7y ago
On the one hand this is great, it's hard to argue that it isn't a good thing to have a very fast CPU-based AV-1 decoder built into Firefox.
On the other hand, I'm wondering how long this decoder will be relevant, especially considering it could still take a while before AV-1 video will be widespread on the web. I fully expect everyone and the kitchen sink will have hardware decoding before long, which is vastly superior over any software implementation.
- Veedrac 7y ago> our latest figures showing that 11.8% of video playback in Firefox Beta used AV1 It seems remarkably popular already.
- acdha 7y agoYouTube started testing AV1 - I would not be surprised to learn that’s most of that number alone. Video format market share is tricky to measure because just a few sites like YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, Twitch, etc. represent a huge fraction of the total streaked bandwidth even though there are so many other sites which publish video on the web.
- ehsankia 7y agoYeah, last I remember, Netflix and Youtube alone use something like 50% of the internet's entire bandwidth. Video is pretty data heavy though so I'm sure there's a huge push to switch to something more efficient.
- sjwright 7y agoThat hardware decoding is more important and will become prevalent sooner on mobile. This will allow early adopters and video producers to validate their content. It will also allow people in five years who have a 5-year-old desktop to enjoy the content.
- adrianN 7y agoPeople don't upgrade their hardware as often as they used to. For example my main machine is nearly ten years old at this point.