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It's odd that the browser supports AC-3 but the MS video player does not unless you pay for the codec, while all the other video players include it. Going with
by Sunspark 4y ago
It's odd that the browser supports AC-3 but the MS video player does not unless you pay for the codec, while all the other video players include it.
Going with AV1 is not an option for the vast majority of people as it requires hardware support. If you try using AV1 on a computer that didn't come with a hardware decoder for it, your machine will crawl.
I force h264 in YouTube for this reason instead of using VP9.
- dopa42365 4y agoYou can easily watch 4k AV1 videos on any recent 6+ cores CPU. So, not an issue unless you're using hardware from 2015 or so? In which case you're unlikely watching a ton of 4k+ content anyway.
- Sunspark 4y agoI'm still using a Broadwell CPU. 2 cores. It works perfectly fine. I don't use the computer for gaming and do try whenever possible to do so to use h.264 which is fully hardware accelerated. The machine does not feel slow to me. I have a fast SSD in it and lots of RAM so it is actually quite responsive. It just can't handle certain things like AV1.
- cesarb 4y ago> If you try using AV1 on a computer that didn't come with a hardware decoder for it, your machine will crawl. My computer doesn't have a hardware decoder for AV1 (as shown by "vainfo"), yet AV1 videos play perfectly fine on it, both within the browser (including on Youtube) and outside it. Playing the AV1 demo (https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/ https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/) on the browser at its maximum resolution uses only around half of the CPU.