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Until there are enough devices with an av1 hardware decoder, any storage and transmission saving is lost to the higher energy usage and worse battery life for t
by galad87 4y ago
Until there are enough devices with an av1 hardware decoder, any storage and transmission saving is lost to the higher energy usage and worse battery life for the end user.
- lazyjeff 4y agoMy phone already has av1 hardware decoding (pixel 6). But anyway it's a chicken/egg problem, where the broader hardware decoding will come once browser support is there. The long-term impacts are more significant. Also, energy use worldwide might decline if fewer datacenters are needed to store/transmit videos. Kind of hard to measure and compare against enduser devices, but it's another factor to consider.
- galad87 4y agoApple makes both its browser and its hardware, so it's not really a chicken/egg problem for them. But they are a member of Alliance for Open Media, so maybe this WWDC or next they will announce something.
- ksec 4y ago>Also, energy use worldwide might decline if fewer datacenters are needed to store/transmit videos. You dont save on Storage, you are storing an additional copy of video using a different codec.