The M1 already has VP9 acceleration in the “media engine” chunk of the SoC. https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-consumption-pt-2/ https://s

The M1 already has VP9 acceleration in the “media engine” chunk of the SoC. https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-consumption-pt-2/ https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-cons... Though Apple doesn’t super explicitly say that. As for AV1…well, we don’t really know yet. That’s deep in the weeds, and it’s entire possible the M2 does have accelerated decoding, but they just didn’t spell that out yet.