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They have no reservations when its their own formats and they force others to implement them on pain of removing essential apps like Youtube.

• izacus 3y ago
  Big surprise.
• jsnell 3y ago
  JPEG XL is one of their own formats!
  • illiarian 3y ago
    Then it's internal politics at play. Or perhaps image codecs are not as important to Google. E.g. Android TV now requires hardware support for AV1 [1] and Google threatened Roku that Rouku would lose Youtube support if it didn't support AV1 in hardware [2] [1] https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/av1-android-14-requirement https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/av1-android-14-requiremen... [2] https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues
    • neurostimulant 3y ago
      What funny is google's own chromecast hardware doesn't support av1, yet they require their competitors to support it. https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media